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Outsmarting the dating sites.
« on: January 22, 2014, 10:17:34 AM »
Math nerd uses hacking skills and actuarial skills to get dates.   


http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/01/how-to-hack-okcupid/
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Re: Outsmarting the dating sites.
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2014, 10:36:23 AM »
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After three weeks he’d harvested 6 million questions and answers from 20,000 women all over the country. McKinlay’s dissertation was relegated to a side project as he dove into the data. He was already sleeping in his cubicle most nights. Now he gave up his apartment entirely and moved into the dingy beige cell, laying a thin mattress across his desk when it was time to sleep.

Um... he defeated himself right here. :rofl:

"Hey baby, wanna come back to my cubicle and cuddle on top of my desk?" :lol:
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Re: Outsmarting the dating sites.
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2014, 10:46:14 AM »

Good use of statistical models. I'm definitely falling in love with python.

I did the OkCupid site and did experimental dating (as in dates as experiments) for research. It was interesting. 
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