We spend nearly a third of our lives sleeping, far more time than just about every other activity short of breathing. In relationships, sharing a bed with a partner can be a source of intimacy with pillow talk, cuddling, and sex being an important part of our lives. While it’s romantic for some, for othersContinue Reading
Category: Rashied’s posts
How Our Psychology Affects How Long We Stay Single
In previous posts, we’ve looked at how different aspects of our identity and lives affect how long we stay single. A lot of the aspects of our identity we studied have to do with the things we do in our day-to-day lives or the environments we surround ourselves with. Sure enough, we’ve seen that somethings makeContinue Reading
How Our Political Views Affect How Long We Stay Single
Starting a dating site is a lot of work. If you do it, you better hope there will be enough users that want to use the service you provide. There are a lot of dating apps that appeal to everyone, but what if your identity and personal values are so strong that you really wantContinue Reading
How Your Lifestyle Affects How Long You Stay Single
Beyond who we are and our love lives, our social lives also have a major impact on how we date and start relationships. Nanaya models social behavior based on your local area and how you interact with your friends. For instance, one can imagine people who go out on a Friday night have a higherContinue Reading
How Your Identity Affects How Long You Stay Single
In last week’s post, I summarized the results of our study “How Long Will You Stay Single” and explained how we came up with these results. This week, we’ll go into the details on how different aspects of our demographic identity affect how long you stay single. It’s worth repeating is that these results areContinue Reading
“How Long Do People Stay Single?” Answered by Nanaya
How long do people stay single after a relationship? It’s a question everyone has wondered at some point, but it’s a question that no one has answered. Really, no one! Well, here at Nanaya we predict peoples’ love lives and we’re all about using the data we’ve collected to improve our algorithms and answer THEContinue Reading
Introducing Nanaya Romantic Personality
After several years of running Nanaya we’ve built up one of the largest databases of romantic outcomes to ever exist. Unlike dating sites, Nanaya has data on how people actual live their lives and have romances in the real world – not just in the “Tinderverse.” We also have plenty of data on people inContinue Reading
Where Black Mirror’s “Hang the DJ” Goes Wrong
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
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