时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(四)月


英语课

This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute?




Netflix isn’t satisfied with the way its system recommends new movies to customers based on their viewing habits. So the mail-order DVD rental 1 company has offered outside teams prizes to improve its accuracy. A group from AT&T Laboratories has already won $50,000 for figuring out a formula that’s 8.43 percent better at telling a film buff what to rent. And Netflix is sweetening the pot—the team that can improve recommendation accuracy by 10 percent will get a cool million.




The contest requires that recommendations be made using the ratings customers give other movies they’ve rented. But the researchers say whether or not a person explicitly 2 rates their returns, their rental history can be used as an “inferred rating” of things like genres 3 or actors. What’s more, the preferences of other customers can predict how someone with similar rental histories would score a film. The research is explained in the May issue of the journal IEEE Spectrum 4.




There are certainly bigger problems to solve these days than recommending movies. But it would be nice to know why Netflix keeps insisting after I’ve returned Slumdog Millionaire and Delicatessen that I’d really like Annie.




Thanks for the minute. For Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Adam Hinterthuer.

 



1 rental
n.租赁,出租,出租业
  • The yearly rental of her house is 2400 yuan.她这房子年租金是2400元。
  • We can organise car rental from Chicago O'Hare Airport.我们可以安排提供从芝加哥奥黑尔机场出发的租车服务。
2 explicitly
ad.明确地,显然地
  • The plan does not explicitly endorse the private ownership of land. 该计划没有明确地支持土地私有制。
  • SARA amended section 113 to provide explicitly for a right to contribution. 《最高基金修正与再授权法案》修正了第123条,清楚地规定了分配权。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
3 genres
(文学、艺术等的)类型,体裁,风格( genre的名词复数 )
  • Novel and short story are different genres. 长篇小说和短篇小说是不同的类别。
  • But confusions over the two genres have a long history. 但是类型的混淆,古已有之。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
4 spectrum
n.谱,光谱,频谱;范围,幅度,系列
  • This is a kind of atomic spectrum.这是一种原子光谱。
  • We have known much of the constitution of the solar spectrum.关于太阳光谱的构成,我们已了解不少。
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'Ali Sabīh
aerial ladder fire truck
aminoethoxy
amion acetic acid
asymmetrical shape
Australian snubfin dolphin
auxiliary wheel
by inches
Canoinhas, R.
carbon black dibutylphthalate absorption number
changed his tune
clearance check measurement
complexing ion
cooldown process
cutesify
design optimization
device-independent routine
diadochocinetic
dialling call system
displacement tons
doclea japonica
drive lock ring
ebonite bush
electrochemical processing
electron capture detectors
engramme
enigmatic, enigmatical
estiferous
exotic dancers
eyeless
fillet interference
finger roll
frumentaceous
full hydrodynamic lubrication
full scale meter deflection
gadoteric
genus buxuss
gironniera chinensis benth.g. subaequalis planch.
goal trade-off
greety
hand graining
human vision
immunocytochemistry
Ito Hirobumi
Jumada
junqueiras
light bombardment aviation
maciunas
McDonald's Corporation
megavolts
moisture distribution section
nest of boiler tube
neurilemma cell
norton
open end investment company
optical tracking system
oumarous
panoramic shooting
passive retrodirective element
phlogistic
plow horse
poetize, poetizing
pointer-and-scale instrument
positive constant
real-time intelligence
recording measurement
recueil
reproductive endocrinology
roll in the aisles
scaut
seat belt webbing
semi-monocoques
shirotani
shmaltz
single-lens eye
sister nucleus
sitalina hirasea
South Atlantic radiation anomaly
spot checked
sprocket chain
Stachyurus himalaicus
State President Swart Pk.
steering wind
stoppress
structured descriptor
superfrequency
surrendering
synoeoccus
technology aquisition
the toffs
toll office
tommotiid
tone compensation
trash talker
tree-form data structure
UDP-GLUCURONATE
unpredictable event
urtite
usable value
vacuous basis
vet.sci.
wire-drawing compound