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> Netflix launched an open competition ... in-house recommendation system by 10%.

It worked great for them. Current masterpiece from Netflix has 13 Oscar nominations! Every AI company should learn and apply this lesson!

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They pretty quickly publicly abandoned that algorithm, so they may have recreated it (since the core stuff is pretty reproducible as the blog states) but yeah, that competition being brought up without bringing up that they abandoned it is interesting.

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