My machine has 8GB of RAM now. I could still work with 4GB, but - you know - memory got so cheap these days... It's not worth using error-prone data & structure packaging any longer (I mean more error-prone than cf algorithms themselves). Not to mention that this challenge is not the only thing I'm currently working on.
There's bad news though: my motherboard won't accept more RAM, so the next step would be to replace the whole mobo ;-)
I still remember buying additional RAM for my first PC machine: it was in mid-1990's, I was doubling my machine's 4MB (some silly game required 8MB). BTW: Windows 95 worked really nice with 4MB, as far as I remember.
Both me and my machine(s) have changed a lot since then...
Let's find out if more RAM helps in this contest.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Introduction
Hi!
My name is Wojtek Kulik. I used to hide under nickname "photek" (guess why, a limited collection handshake offered for the first correct solution; HINT: there are TWO reasons), but from now on I'll be using my real name only. I wish I could change my team's name, but apparently it's not possible (that means I've slightly polluted the leaderboard - sorry for that).
To quote Terry Pratchett - I live behind a keyboard in Warsaw (Poland), working on my startup project. As it's related to prediction, I decided to give a try in Netflix Prize challenge, hoping that success of my startup depends on the success of my approach to this challenge.
I've managed to get into TOP-40 recently. But to be honest, it's not enough for me... I've got plenty of ideas on my TODO list; unfortunately my current bottleneck is computing power.
Enough writing. Time to make a submission :-)
My name is Wojtek Kulik. I used to hide under nickname "photek" (guess why, a limited collection handshake offered for the first correct solution; HINT: there are TWO reasons), but from now on I'll be using my real name only. I wish I could change my team's name, but apparently it's not possible (that means I've slightly polluted the leaderboard - sorry for that).
To quote Terry Pratchett - I live behind a keyboard in Warsaw (Poland), working on my startup project. As it's related to prediction, I decided to give a try in Netflix Prize challenge, hoping that success of my startup depends on the success of my approach to this challenge.
I've managed to get into TOP-40 recently. But to be honest, it's not enough for me... I've got plenty of ideas on my TODO list; unfortunately my current bottleneck is computing power.
Enough writing. Time to make a submission :-)
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