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prizemaster · 2006-09-21 13:37:59

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Eschatology · 2006-10-02 17:11:57

What size will the final expanded data set be?

prizemaster · 2006-10-02 17:33:52

About 2GB:
$ du -s download
2097208 download

teaseRebotier · 2006-10-04 16:19:04

Is it possible to change teams, or especially merge teams? Some I know already rushed to register and we may consider working together... Also I don't recall in the rules that any person is limited to one participation (OK, i probably missed it but that's usually the case in contests :-) )

jaseowns · 2006-10-04 22:25:46

teaseRebotier wrote:
Is it possible to change teams, or especially merge teams? Some I know already rushed to register and we may consider working together... Also I don't recall in the rules that any person is limited to one participation (OK, i probably missed it but that's usually the case in contests :-) )

The rules state:

"Registration

To participate in the Contest, Participants must accurately and truthfully complete the Participant registration information request online at www.NetflixPrize.com (the "Site"). To register, Participants must provide a team name, a list of all team Participants, and identify the team leader, providing each Participant’s full name, and e-mail address, affiliation, if any, and country. In addition, each Participant must consent to be bound by these Rules. Individuals may be members of multiple teams. "

Goodluck.

teaseRebotier · 2006-10-05 03:46:57

Thank you.... I knew I had missed something .. but ... huhhhh ... what about the one week rule then? I know its only the quiz set but nothing prevents me from having 7 temas and quizzing once a day... just a thought... anyway thank you :-)

winsteps · 2006-10-15 12:56:26

"Individuals may be members of multiple teams. "

In another thread, someone reports he was not allowed to do this - he was team leader of 8 teams at one point before being reduced to one team ... Please clarify the rule. Am I allowed two teams in each of which I am the only member? I am allowed to be in two teams in both of which I am the team leader, but which also include other members? Am I allowed two teams in one fo which I'm the team leader and in the other I am not?

winsteps · 2006-10-15 13:11:48

Please add a "show last post in the thread at top of the thread" (reverse chronological) option to the Forum viewing. Thanks.

karplus · 2006-10-19 04:58:39

Why is there no way to get the format for the data without downloading the whole dataset?
I'd like to write some code *before* I download all the data!

Barry · 2006-10-19 05:19:02

karplus wrote:
Why is there no way to get the format for the data without downloading the whole dataset?
I'd like to write some code *before* I download all the data!

I complained about that here. I think the information you want is in the readme file, which you can find here.

karplus · 2006-10-19 09:42:23

Barry wrote:
karplus wrote:
Why is there no way to get the format for the data without downloading the whole dataset?
I'd like to write some code *before* I download all the data!
I complained about that here. I think the information you want is in the readme file, which you can find here.

Thanks, that was exatly what I was looking for!

snowcash · 2006-10-24 12:00:30

This was asked a couple of times, most recently in. Don't believe there was ever an official response, though.

http://www.netflixprize.com/community/v … php?id=226

hugeback · 2006-10-24 12:11:45

snowcash wrote:
This was asked a couple of times, most recently in. Don't believe there was ever an official response, though.

http://www.netflixprize.com/community/v … php?id=226

Thanks. Let me know if you see an official response pop up anywhere.

Last edited by hugeback (2006-10-24 12:12:10)

prizemaster · 2006-10-24 13:18:02

See update in http://www.netflixprize.com/community/v … php?id=153

snowcash · 2006-10-24 13:26:06

Cool, so pretend like the contest starts January 2nd for the purposes of the 30 day rule.

Eudaous · 2006-10-26 17:05:07

Question, I am building a webpage (so when I get on the leaderboard I'll have a place for people to go). Is there any problem with putting the text, "Netflixprize" contest, on it? In other words the page might be titled, "Eudaous's Netflixprize adventure!" or something like that. I might also have the words and a link to "www.Netflixprize.com", or the leaderboard, or whatever.

Am I ok to do this? Do I need anything special, verbage, permission, etc? Things I shouldn't do?

Thanks.

Lonnie · 2007-02-11 07:32:43

Hello,

I just created a new Team "LDA_Running" and have added myself and one other person.

I mistakenly added someone to my other team "OutStep" and need to know how to remove them?

Since we are developing 2 different types of specialized programs, I figured that I needed to have 2 teams. One "OutStep" for myself and the other one for more than one member.

Can you please advise?
Thanks,
Lonnie Cumberland
lonnie@outstep.com

mo · 2007-04-01 23:59:36

problems with uploading file.
i fill in the correct username and password, md5 hash and the file name path and when i clicked submit i got un avalible web page.

sunk · 2007-04-03 04:03:30

Why not use bzip2 as the compression format?
Using bzip2 the file would be smaller, and we
suffer less while uploading the results...

Bored Bitless · 2007-07-01 10:35:33

Hi, This may have been asked before but I don't think so...

In building predictive models I often find myself deriving smooth curves from noisy raw data in the dataset. The are some mathematical ways of doing this, such as bezier curves. However, sometimes when I can't quite get the curve I want mathematically, and it's a one-off (so I don't have to repeat the operations one per movie and/or customer) I'll just print out a graph of the raw noisy data and draw a best fit curve with a pencil. I can then manually type in points on the pencil line curve into my source code.

Now if I were to win and this manual drawing of a curve was part of my submitted technique, would that be accepted?

Thanks,

Bored Bitless!

Last edited by Bored Bitless (2007-07-01 10:39:11)

prizemaster · 2007-07-01 12:00:40

Yes, of course we'd accept it. But we'd also expect your description to come in the form of a hand-illustrated vellum manuscript bound in the finest leather If you win we'll add the semi-precious stones to the cover. Good luck with all that.

Bored Bitless · 2007-07-02 01:24:59

prizemaster wrote:
Yes, of course we'd accept it..

Ok thanks.

prizemaster wrote:
But we'd also expect your description to come in the form of a hand-illustrated vellum manuscript bound in the finest leather If you win we'll add the semi-precious stones to the cover. Good luck with all that.

Ah that's nice to know as I'm running low on semi-precious stones right now

BB.

jccooper · 2009-06-22 08:42:36

FYI, the E-mail link is only available for signed-in forum members. And it appears to be the only way to email Netflix Prize.

dale5351 · 2009-06-22 09:23:04

I have a question about judging potential prize submissions.

I asked it in General Discussion here:
http://www.netflixprize.com//community/ … hp?id=1432

but would really appreciate an official response.

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