Para la versión en español por favor haga clic aquí. Let’s get straight to the chase. Most Romantic Nations Higher score, better lovers? Ok, well it’s awfully hard to date a whole country but we can describe the populations of a country. So how can we say which country is “the best lover” or simplyContinue Reading
Author: Rashied
Rashied is Founder of Nanaya, NASA JPL systems engineer, and WUSTL physics graduate student. He's a pro at not sleeping.
First data science blog post this week
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and it’s a big day for us here at Nanaya. Last weekend, I downloaded a dataset with all these international personalities and started investigating to see what insights existed. This week, we’ll be publishing our first investigation: “Which Nation Is the Best Lover?” To recap, a little less thanContinue Reading
The Unmeasurable Value of Nanaya
Atoms, or perhaps it would be more accurate the say those aspects of the atom which scientists choose to consider, are immeasurably less complicated than men. And yet nobody who is not professionally a physicist would venture to discuss the nature of atoms. Where man is concerned, the case is different. Not only the professionalContinue Reading
A Work in Progress
This last week has been really exciting! We’re at thousands of users and well before we expected or planned. That’s not always good. I’ve been contacted by quite a few people telling me about ways to improve Nanaya. We’re listening but unfortunately Nanaya is not funded so we can only work as hard as friends and I can findContinue Reading
What is Nanaya? Video edition!
As a little boy, I dreamed of doing great science that helps discover new frontiers in the universe. When I started at NASA JPL as a mission architect, I dreamed of designing new mission concepts that can explore new places in new ways with less money. I’m a generally private person, but I really looked forward to helping scienceContinue Reading
“Should I Dump My Girlfriend? Will I Find Another?”
Well let’s not get too hasty. Earlier this week, I posted the Nanaya white paper to ArXiv: “Should I Dump My Girlfriend? Will I Find Another?” Or: An Algorithm for the Forecasting of Romantic Options. The title is a bit melodramatic but it’s a reference to Peter Backus’s “Why I Don’t Have a Girlfriend.” ApologiesContinue Reading
Nearing Launch…
The pace of posts has slowed down as we prepare for the launch of Nanaya personality testing. We’re working on several types of releases. One of them is an academic paper that describes the Nanaya algorithm. Like any other academic paper, a Wordle is obligatory:
Does Online Dating Actually Boost Your Odds?
This is a bit of a no-brainer: online dating increases your exposure to more people than you ordinarily would run into each day. Sometimes that’s not so good: But let’s face it, it’s not always easy to meet people you want to meet and the one might be out there. There’s pretty minimal investment in onlineContinue Reading
Chaotic Love: What math can tell us about how relationships evolve
I’m very proud to say that Nanaya solves a problem that hasn’t been solved before: determining the value in time of relationships and the option of possible relationships. The Nanaya algorithm has to be pretty complicated to do all of that – a machine of gears, pulleys, and switches that work together to provide a result.Continue Reading
All’s Nerdy in Love and War
Time to take a break from writing about relationships and psychology and write about something close to home: engineering. Specifically, this post connects fighting wars to forecasting love though an engineering history lesson. If there’s something humans are born to do it’s stay alive. While almost all creatures have the biological urge to “fight orContinue Reading