Netflix Prize: 10% barrier has been broken
Congratulations to the team BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos, who appears to have broken the 10% Cinematch barrier of 10% performance:
June 26, 2009: Today our team submitted our solution to the Netflix Prize, resulting in a score of .8558, which corresponds to an improvement over Netflix Cinematch algorithm of 10.05%. This is the first submission in the competition to break the 10% barrier and sets off a 30 day period where all competitors are invited to submit their best and final solutions.
