Netflix Prize: Forum
Forum for discussion about the Netflix Prize and dataset.
You are not logged in.
Announcement
#176 2010-03-16 12:42:36
- Lazy Monkey
- Member
- Registered: 2007-12-13
- Posts: 93
Re: Netflix Prize 2 (Yes, a sequel!)
Aron wrote:
Open Letter from Texas Privacy Researchers to Netflix
The Texas researchers don't understand the Netflix blog post. The real meaning is "Hell will freeze over before we run another contest."
Way to go guys.
Offline
#177 2010-03-18 11:55:53
- CS1
- Member
- From: San Jose, CA
- Registered: 2006-10-02
- Posts: 151
Re: Netflix Prize 2 (Yes, a sequel!)
CS1 wrote:
DandA wrote:
Why is this taking so long? It's starting to look like Netflix is going to call the whole thing off...
Oh, you misunderstood: the second competition is already underway. As they said, a lot less will be revealed. So, right now, we're busy working on a data set where we don't have movie ratings, and user IDs are anonymous. Since so many people begged not to be given ZIP info, we're not getting ZIP, age, and gender. It's as opaque as imagineable! The paranoid privacy protection patzers are pleased as punch!
I'll be ready to submit the moment they tell me how many people I'm supposed to include in the output set. I hope they'll also reveal the submission URL, because it's a real beast hunting all over the net for the correct site.
CS1
Did I call it or not? 
Especially regarding those pathetic privacy patzers and their perfectly preposterous pedantry!
Shhhhhh....
CS1
Offline