In 2006, Netflix announced a contest to improve the recommendation engine it uses by at least 10%. Yesterday it was announced that a team was able to reach 10.05%. Read more about it in Wired.com.
The winning team wins $1,000,000.
In 2006, Netflix announced a contest to improve the recommendation engine it uses by at least 10%. Yesterday it was announced that a team was able to reach 10.05%. Read more about it in Wired.com.
The winning team wins $1,000,000.
2D Boy, the folks behind “World of Goo”, have released a Rapid Prototyping Framework.
Wolfire Blog has a great game design tour of World of Goo
Design Tour – World of Goo from David Rosen on Vimeo.
Really great observations. It’s a great game too. Just $15 on WiiWare. You can also get World of Goo for the Mac and PC
Python 2.6 was released today.
Apple made the following announcement today:
We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.
We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others.
However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released software within a week or so. Please note that unreleased software and features will remain under NDA until they are released.
Thanks to everyone who provided us constructive feedback on this matter.
Via Apple
Note to Future Steve… Remember to check to see if releasing the HTML 5 standard in 2022 will matter to anyone by then.
A new web framework called Cappuccino has been released. It allows you to program web apps in Objective-J (something similar to Object-C, only more like Javascript), and come up with some pretty impressive apps. Check out Cappuccino website for a demo of what can be done.
Google has a bunch of MySQL tools.