Perry Mason is Going to Happen.
January 3, 2014 7:35 AM Subscribe
"My first goal was: tear apart content!" he said.
How do you systematically dismember thousands of movies using a bunch of different people who all need to have the same understanding of what a given microtag means? In 2006, Yellin holed up with a couple of engineers and spent months developing a document called "Netflix Quantum Theory," which Yellin now derides as "our pretentious name." The name refers to what Yellin used to call "quanta," the little "packets of energy" that compose each movie. He now prefers the term "microtag." How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood an Atlantic article by Alexis Madrigal
How do you systematically dismember thousands of movies using a bunch of different people who all need to have the same understanding of what a given microtag means? In 2006, Yellin holed up with a couple of engineers and spent months developing a document called "Netflix Quantum Theory," which Yellin now derides as "our pretentious name." The name refers to what Yellin used to call "quanta," the little "packets of energy" that compose each movie. He now prefers the term "microtag." How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood an Atlantic article by Alexis Madrigal
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