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The Netflix Prize and the structure of machine learning competition
After you watched the movies, you’d tie an onion to your belt, which was the style at the time, and then walk over to a mailbox and send the DVDs back to Netflix. Netflix released a data set of 100 million total ratings from around 500 thousand subscribers, scoring about 18,000 movies. The companies still slurp all of our data, but our ability to audit their practices or create competing services has been blunted by fear of lawsuits and regulation.
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