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June 27, 2009

“last call” for Netflix Grand Prize - 1 Million about to go!

Filed under: data mining, tech — jeetu @ 1:57 am

As per the mail from netflix –

As of the submission by team “BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos” on June 26, 2009 18:42:37 UTC, the Netflix Prize competition entered the “last call” period for the Grand Prize. In accord with the Rules, teams have thirty (30) days, until July 26, 2009 18:42:37 UTC, to make submissions that will be considered for this Prize. Good luck and thank you for participating!

The team called BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos has reached a 10.05% improvement over Netflix base measurement - which means they will win the 1 million $ prize, unless some other team beats them in the next month.

Wohoo! lets get some random number generator to make one attempt a day ;-) (Thats the max they allow)