Back in the day me and a couple of friends got very excited to chase the prize in Netflix's contest [1]. Took us a minute to realize it was a brilliant move on

Back in the day me and a couple of friends got very excited to chase the prize in Netflix's contest [1]. Took us a minute to realize it was a brilliant move on the company's part -- all they had to do was dangle a carrot, and they had teams of PhDs and budding data scientists hacking away endless hours in hope to win. A real bargain, had they tried to hire with that budget, they would've maybe got a handful of people for a year. 1: https://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/220100498/researchers-solve-netflix-challenge-win-1-million-prize https://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/220100498/researche...