Comments on: Netflix Prize Concept + Google 411 Data http://www.tomkleinpeter.com/2008/08/13/netflix-prize-concept-google-411-data/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:46:48 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: SDC http://www.tomkleinpeter.com/2008/08/13/netflix-prize-concept-google-411-data/comment-page-1/#comment-1756 SDC Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:11:58 +0000 http://www.spiteful.com/?p=66#comment-1756 I would enjoy a future of more contest-based employment. Put all those mental cycles to good use. Instead of being the 80,000th person to write a Fibonacci routine in Scala, a person could DO something cool in their spare time... I would enjoy a future of more contest-based employment. Put all those mental cycles to good use. Instead of being the 80,000th person to write a Fibonacci routine in Scala, a person could DO something cool in their spare time…

]]> By: Tom http://www.tomkleinpeter.com/2008/08/13/netflix-prize-concept-google-411-data/comment-page-1/#comment-1755 Tom Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:11:18 +0000 http://www.spiteful.com/?p=66#comment-1755 @Abhik -- ah, but they don't to actually release any of their data. If they allowed teams to submit a program that accepted a audio file and returned a string of text, they could "grade" the submissions without releasing anything. They could take this even further and run each submitted program in a training mode on a subset of the data, where the submission is given both the audio and the expected output. All of this could be done internally on Google's world famous server farms, likely much faster than teams could do on their own. @Abhik — ah, but they don’t to actually release any of their data. If they allowed teams to submit a program that accepted a audio file and returned a string of text, they could “grade” the submissions without releasing anything.

They could take this even further and run each submitted program in a training mode on a subset of the data, where the submission is given both the audio and the expected output. All of this could be done internally on Google’s world famous server farms, likely much faster than teams could do on their own.

]]> By: Abhik http://www.tomkleinpeter.com/2008/08/13/netflix-prize-concept-google-411-data/comment-page-1/#comment-1754 Abhik Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:02:27 +0000 http://www.spiteful.com/?p=66#comment-1754 Netflix was able to anonymize their data (although according to some reports, not very well) but Google can't do that with the phonemes dataset. So, they would have to release all or a big subset of the data that was presumably not the easiest or cheapest thing to collect. Netflix was able to anonymize their data (although according to some reports, not very well) but Google can’t do that with the phonemes dataset. So, they would have to release all or a big subset of the data that was presumably not the easiest or cheapest thing to collect.

]]> By: Will Hall http://www.tomkleinpeter.com/2008/08/13/netflix-prize-concept-google-411-data/comment-page-1/#comment-1753 Will Hall Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:06:07 +0000 http://www.spiteful.com/?p=66#comment-1753 This is an awsome concept, i never really thought about why they would give a service like that away for free when it ends up costing 25 cents or more for normal 411 This is an awsome concept, i never really thought about why they would give a service like that away for free when it ends up costing 25 cents or more for normal 411

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