Python Scripting and Analyzing Your Way To Love 188
fiannaFailMan writes "Wired reports one mathematician's mission to find love online by data mining from OK Cupid and applying mathematical modeling to optimize his profile(s). His methods included using 'Python scripts to riffle through hundreds of OkCupid survey questions. He then sorted female daters into seven clusters, like "Diverse" and "Mindful," each with distinct characteristics.' But the real work began when he started going on dates."
Re:Limited potential (Score:5, Informative)
Re: Sounds creepy .... (Score:3, Informative)
When I read TFS it sounded a lot like what ok cupid does already. And of the people I've met on it (probably around ten), at least half would of thought it was cool I augmented the site to waste less time with people I didn't like.
What online dating suffers from is 75% of the participants are dudes, so the girls get tons of messages, get overwhelmed, and leave. This keeps the problem going.
Re: Sounds creepy .... (Score:4, Informative)
> What online dating suffers from is 75% of the participants are dudes...
No true, except possibly on AdultFriendFinder.
http://www.nextadvisor.com/blo... [nextadvisor.com]
Re:TED talk (Score:4, Informative)
Yeah, but under the lens of actual medical science it all falls apart.
From wikipedia
Many of Andraka's claims do not stand up to rigorous peer-reviewed research. For instance, a 2011 article published by Sharton et al. of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the NIH National Cancer Institute refutes many of Andraka's claims about specificity of using mesothelin as a biomarker for pancreatic cancer. Specifically, the group showed that mesothelin serum levels in healty donors 0.58 (0.15 – 0.72) nmol/l were not statistically different from serum levels in pancreatic cancer patients 0.66 (0.52 – 0.94) nmol/L.[15] In addition to this issue of false positives, George M. Church, professor of genetics at Harvard University, has raised concerns about the cost, speed, and sensitivity claims.[11]