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Fritzlein
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Look to your Challenge money, Omar.
« on: Oct 29th, 2009, 5:21am » |
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Have any of you guys ever heard of the Netflix Challenge? It was sort of like the Arimaa Challenge, only for a million dollars instead of ten thousand. Excerpts from the Wikipedia article about the Netflix Challenge:
Quote:On September 18, 2009, Netflix announced team "BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos" as the prize winner[...]
The joint-team "BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos" consisted of two Austrian researchers from Commendo Research & Consulting GmbH, Andreas Töscher and Michael Jahrer (originally team BigChaos), two researchers from AT&T Labs, Robert Bell, and Chris Volinsky, Yehuda Koren from Yahoo! (originally team BellKor) and two researchers from Pragmatic Theory, Martin Piotte and Martin Chabbert. |
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Why have I added emphasis to one of the Netflix prize winners? Because yesterday this game scrolled by in the game results. Hang on to your hats, folks!
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Re: Look to your Challenge money, Omar.
« Reply #1 on: Oct 29th, 2009, 5:57am » |
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on Oct 29th, 2009, 5:21am, Fritzlein wrote:Have any of you guys ever heard of the Netflix Challenge? It was sort of like the Arimaa Challenge, only for a million dollars instead of ten thousand. Excerpts from the Wikipedia article about the Netflix Challenge:
Why have I added emphasis to one of the Netflix prize winners? Because yesterday this game scrolled by in the game results. Hang on to your hats, folks! |
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wow
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Simon
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Re: Look to your Challenge money, Omar.
« Reply #2 on: Oct 29th, 2009, 6:56am » |
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The "name" given for bot_pragmatictheory is "Martin Piotte and Martin Chabbert" so it sounds like a team effort between the two researchers from Pragmatic Theory who were on the Netflix prize-winning team.
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Fritzlein
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Re: Look to your Challenge money, Omar.
« Reply #3 on: Oct 29th, 2009, 8:24am » |
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Good catch, Simon. I should not have left out one of the Martins.
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Re: Look to your Challenge money, Omar.
« Reply #4 on: Oct 29th, 2009, 12:01pm » |
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on Oct 29th, 2009, 8:24am, Fritzlein wrote:| Good catch, Simon. I should not have left out one of the Martins. |
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"To arms, to arms, the Martins are coming!" 
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Re: Look to your Challenge money, Omar.
« Reply #5 on: Oct 29th, 2009, 2:01pm » |
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Wow; this is really cool. It will be interesting to see what kind of approach they take. If they win it I hope it's with a bot that was evolved or can learn on it's own 
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