On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Ted Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry. The first year prize is gone (the $50,000 progress prize for the > first yet) and the subsequent yearly prizes are going to be very hard to > get > (squeezing water from a stone). The asymptotic progress curve tells the > story. +1 There is still room for improvement---the algorithms that were applied in the first progress prize weren't particularly fancy. But, good luck running fancy algorithms on a data set of that size. And, it appears that no single algorithm will get you to the top---as with the progress prize winners, you'll likely need to combine 100+ algorithm outputs. I'm still anxious to try MMMF on the data, but the Netflix data is 100x larger than the data sets I've run MMMF on. Matlab code I have just won't cut it... Jason -- Jason Rennie Head of Machine Learning Technologies, StyleFeeder http://www.stylefeeder.com/ Samantha's blog & pictures: http://samanthalyrarennie.blogspot.com/
