Crowdsource Collaboration Breaks Barrier

BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos breaks the Netflix barrier through collaboration model. ...

... "Today our team submitted our solution to the Netflix Prize, resulting in a score of .8558, which corresponds to an improvement over Netflix Cinematch algorithm of 10.05%. This is the first submission in the competition to break the 10% barrier and sets off a 30 day period where all competitors are invited to submit their best and final solutions. " ...

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