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pg on Dec 11, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Netflix Progress Prize Awarded

Hmm. What could Netflix know, though? Is it even possible to quantify how hard it is to improve a recommendation algorithm by a certain amount?

aswanson on Dec 11, 2008 [–]

Maybe there is an inherent noise floor for the optimal estimator for the dataset they have found or bounded.

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