How is this different from eHarmony, Match.com, or OkCupid? Instead of matchmaking and connecting people, we provide objective romantic and social advice using advanced modeling. Loosely, we give you a Carfax of your love and social life. We can answer specific questions about your love life. For instance: Where and in what groups you haveContinue Reading
Author: Rashied
Rashied is Founder of Nanaya, NASA JPL systems engineer, and WUSTL physics graduate student. He's a pro at not sleeping.
The Catch-22 of Finding a Match
It shouldn’t be a big surprise but the best chances of finding a romantic match are after a big life change, such as a move, going to college, or a new job. In fact it takes on a shape that looks a bit like this: Being in a new environment means exposure to new people.Continue Reading
Can Love Be Quantified?
No. At least I haven’t found a way. If you have, please contact me! So we can’t quantify it but can we forecast it? I can write about love as an irrational and unpredictable force in our daily lives but that doesn’t do it justice. Love is a lot more than just that. Naively, we canContinue Reading
The Best Places to Find Love in America? For Whom?
Sometimes there might be a great opportunity waiting for you but it’s just not what you want. Pew recently published the best cities for women to find the ideal man. By ideal man, they mean someone who is single and is employed. High bar, right? As posted on the New York Times: Facebook Data ScienceContinue Reading
Self-awareness and Relationships
http://vimeo.com/59037145 I ❤ I ❤ Huckabees and this is one of my favorite gags in the film – but there’s an interesting point here as Jude Law’s character takes a major turn. If you want to ask how you are not being yourself, you only need to think about self-awareness. But self-awareness isn’t just importantContinue Reading
What Are the Odds of Finding Love?
As I started to develop the algorithm behind Nanaya I wanted to make sure I wasn’t reinventing the wheel. I found all sorts of personal stories about people doing their own calculations of whether or not they’ll find love – but only one actually described what he did. Dr. Peter Backus, then a graduate studentContinue Reading
Why Am I Building Nanaya?
Whether it’s having a morning coffee, running to catch the bus, or getting to work – I always ask myself “Why am I doing this?” Even if I know why and even if there’s an answer, should I be satisfied? Am I living up to my own ideals? How do I even know if I’mContinue Reading