This week Netflix announced a winner in its contest to improve its movie rating software. A team of seven computer engineers, statisticians and machine learning experts, Bellkor’s Pragmatic Chaos, won $1 million for creating an algorithm that improves the current software by more than 10 percent. Some context: Netflix wants happy customers who see the […]
The end of a newspaper … and rising from the ashes …
The Rocky Mountain News had a good run, but it’s over. Here’s a 20+ minute video on the end. It’s worth your time: Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo. While the news coming from the newspaper industry is almost universally bad, there are some glimmers of hope. There are many, many more reasons to […]