Netflix finishes (and starts) – Machine Learning (Theory)I attended the Netflix prize ceremony this morning. The press conference part is covered fine elsewhere, with the basic outcome being that BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos won over The Ensemble by 15-20 minutes, because they were tied in performance on the ultimate holdout set. I’m sure the individual participants will have many chances to speak about the solution. One of these is Bell at the NYAS ML sym
