Archive for October 2nd, 2006




Netflix offers $1 million prize for a better way to recommend movies

Oct 2nd, 2006 | By

For those of you who don’t know, Netflix is the online DVD movie rental company that now sport 5.2 million subscribers. They are looking for ways to improve their movie recommendation system and have announced a $1 million prize for a software application that improves the accuracy of Netflix’ current system by at least 10%. [...]

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Will mean more later

Oct 2nd, 2006 | By

This won’t mean much to you until you hear the difference for yourself, but Gigavox, the business arm of IT Conversations, has released a GREAT little tool called Levelator that levels audio all the way through an audio file. To date I have only been able to do this in a patchy way through the [...]

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