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The Million Dollar Programming Prize
IEEE Spectrum: The Million Dollar Programming Prize
...We have just submitted our latest entry in the year-old Netflix Prize competition, which offers a grand prize of US $1 million for an algorithm that’s 10 percent more accurate than the one Netflix uses to predict customers’ movie preferences. Although we have not reached that milestone, we are hoping at least to do better than anyone else has done so far; if we can make it to 8 p.m. with the best score, we’ll win a $50 000 Progress Prize...
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Nike+ Running Stats
- Total runs: 204
- Total distance: 341.54mi
- Total time: 101hr 30min 28sec
- Total calories: 44,811
- Avg pace per mi: 17'49"
- Avg distance per run: 1.67mi
- Avg calories per run: 219.66
My Records
- Farthest Run: 6.43mi
- Fastest Mile: 3'50"
- Fastest 5K: 19'6"
- Fastest 10K:2hr 16min 12sec
My Recent Runs
- November 29, 2011, 12:20pm
- Distance: 0.52mi
- Duration: 7' 24"
- Calories: 61
- June 15, 2011, 10:38am
- Distance: 1.10mi
- Duration: 16' 56"
- Calories: 111
- May 30, 2011, 6:06pm
- Distance: 4.01mi
- Duration: 23' 51"
- Calories: 561
