Mission: Impossible

A post about how one team won the progress award for 2008 in the Netflix Contest that I talked about earlier came out recently.

Thoughts and stuff after the jump.

So here's the important things to take out of the article:

• The teams started collaborating, since working on their own was taking far too long
• The team discusses two different filtering methods
• You can really see how crowdsourcing the project has led to a snowball effect (by implementing, Netflix can gain more/better data for more improvements)
• 10% is REALLY hard to get to.

They're getting a lot closer though. Maybe by this time next year, they'll have cracked it.