{"id":231,"date":"2006-10-02T09:12:45","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T15:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=231"},"modified":"2006-10-02T09:12:45","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T15:12:45","slug":"1m-netflix-prediction-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"$1M Netflix prediction contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflixprize.com\/rules\">running a contest<\/a> to improve recommender prediction systems.   A 10% improvement over their current system yields a $1M prize.  Failing that, the best smaller improvement yields a smaller $50K prize.  This contest looks quite real, and the $50K prize money is almost certainly achievable with a bit of thought.  The contest also comes with a dataset which is apparently 2 orders of magnitude larger than any other public recommendation system datasets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is running a contest to improve recommender prediction systems. A 10% improvement over their current system yields a $1M prize. Failing that, the best smaller improvement yields a smaller $50K prize. This contest looks quite real, and the $50K prize money is almost certainly achievable with a bit of thought. The contest also comes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=231\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;$1M Netflix prediction contest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","category-machine-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}