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
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“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
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