Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror offers an incisive perspective on how the human struggle adapts as technology progresses. The episode, “Hang the DJ,” (HtDJ) is a story about what happens when an algorithm can predict love. Wait a second … that’s what Nanaya does! In my last post, I described how the algorithm in HtDJ works.Continue Reading
Author: Rashied
Rashied is Founder of Nanaya, NASA JPL systems engineer, and WUSTL physics graduate student. He's a pro at not sleeping.
Black Mirror’s “Hang the DJ” Explained
Even if you haven’t seen it, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve heard of Charlie Brooker’s series, Black Mirror. In its first two seasons, Black Mirror used its standalone episodes to explore the dark side of upcoming and speculative technologies. New seasons, however, have included more uplifting episodes that depicts technology actually helping peoples’ livesContinue Reading
Nanaya News for 2018
Happy 2018 from Nanaya! As it’s been almost two years since the last blog post, it’s about time for an update. Over the past two years, almost 250,000 users have tried Nanaya to help understand what their romantic and social futures will look like and what they can do to help live happier and fullerContinue Reading
Probability and Nanaya’s Predictive Power
When you get your Nanaya Romance report, one of the first things you’ll see is a chart predicting your odds of finding love over the next seven years. For everyone, this is a line that starts at 0% as we calculate odds based on the moment you take the test. As you meet people in time,Continue Reading
Making Sense of Nanaya Report Scores
The Nanaya algorithm does a lot of heavy lifting to determine your romantic future, generating thousands of numbers that tell us a lot about your next seven years of romance. Unfortunately, unless you’re a computer it’s hard to actually to make sense of them. When Nanaya comes out in a few weeks, you’ll notice several differentContinue Reading
A Cold Winter but a Hot January: Nanaya Launch News
A little over a year ago we launched our website with the goal of building a large enough database of personalities that we could continue building an app capable of predicting the future of your love life. I’m proud to say that we’ve hit critical mass and we’re almost done with the app! Our goalContinue Reading
Spring 2015 News Update
It’s been well over a month without a blog post but it doesn’t mean we’re not keeping busy at Nanaya. Personally, because this is a fun side project, occasionally other things take priority like my astrophysics research for my PhD and designing space missions for NASA JPL. But don’t worry, we’re on schedule with releasing an early version of Nanaya around LateContinue Reading
Which Careers Make for the Best Lovers?
A little over a month ago, I used Nanaya’s database of personalities to figure out which nation had the best lovers. Now that we’re almost at 20,000 users, Nanaya has enough data to see which industries have the best lovers. Below are the composite scores: But there are averaged between men and women. Looking atContinue Reading
Women Aren’t Crazy
Nor are men. Or if women are crazy, then everyone’s crazy. How do we know? Over the past two months we’ve been building the database for the Nanaya algorithm – the first app that can scientifically forecast your love life and help you make romantic and social decisions. A major part of the algorithm requires searching throughContinue Reading
¿Qué nación es el mejor amante? Pregunte Nanaya
Vamos a ir directamente al grano. Most Romantic Nations ¿Puntuación más alta, mejores amantes? Ok, así que es muy difícil salir con todo un país, pero podemos describir la población de un país. Entonces, ¿cómo podemos decir en qué país es “el mejor amante” o simplemente “más romántico?” Llevamos a nuestra base de datos deContinue Reading