In 2006, popular streaming service Netflix launched a $1 million competition, inviting researchers, students and mathematicians to take a shot at improving the Netflix recommendation algorithm. The rules for the competition were to build an algorithm that beats Cinematch, Netflix’s baseline algorithm by 10 percent. Today, many people question the usefulness of this competition and open algorithmic contests as a whole.

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