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Netflix, the popular online movie rental service, is planning to award
$1 million to the first person who can improve the accuracy of movie
recommendations based on personal preferences.
To win the prize, which is to be announced Monday, a contestant will
have to devise a system that is more accurate than the company's
current recommendation system by at least 10 percent. And to improve
the quality of research, Netflix is making available to the public 100
million of its customers' movie ratings, a database the company says
is the largest of its kind ever released.
Recommendation systems, also known as collaborative filtering systems,
try to predict whether a customer will like a movie, book or piece of
music
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