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Comment by kaddar

Ugh I hate it when people make this claim or link this article. If you follow one more article link deep, they say implemented some of the earlier code that came out of it, code that provided the real business value consistently.

Do you know what caused a team to win?

They Realized (1) people rate movies higher on specific days ( why would you want to implement that into your estimator? And (2) they realized that all the movies that Netflix was asking about we're movies the user was willing to rate, and because users tended to rate movies they like, this biased the results, so basically, they didn't implement the hacking the test

parent kaddar 14 years ago

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