Technical: June 2008 Archives
"In October 2006, Netflix announced it would give a cool seven figures to whoever created a movie-recommending algorithm 10 percent better than its own. Within two weeks, the DVD rental company had received 169 submissions, including three that were slightly superior to Cinematch, Netflix's recommendation software. After a month, more than a thousand programs had been entered, and the top scorers were almost halfway to the goal."
Because of a past life in algorithmic problem solving I was and have stayed interested in the Netflix prize. In fact it's more than that -- I honestly think their idea on letting others contribute and improve the algorithm was brilliant.
This Wired article is interesting, entertaining, and informative. Read the full article at This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize.
Because of a past life in algorithmic problem solving I was and have stayed interested in the Netflix prize. In fact it's more than that -- I honestly think their idea on letting others contribute and improve the algorithm was brilliant.
This Wired article is interesting, entertaining, and informative. Read the full article at This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize.
Running on less than 300 servers, Wikipedia boasts some huge numbers:
Read the full article at A Look Inside Wikipedia's Infrastructure - Data Center Knowledge.
- 50,000 http requests per second
- 80,000 SQL queries per second
- 7 million registered users
- 18 million page objects in the English version
- 250 million page links # 220 million revisions
- 1.5 terabytes of compressed data
Read the full article at A Look Inside Wikipedia's Infrastructure - Data Center Knowledge.
There is a generation of us that gets high by seeing a command line interface. Now the effect of that is doubled if one sees screenshots of a root shell on iPhone, let alone attaching to a process and debugging it... Love ya baby!
