Guest Author: Michalina Malysz
“Like you use sentences to tell a person a story; you use algorithms to tell a story to a computer” (Rudder 2013).
In today’s day and age, we have the world at our fingertips. The internet has made many things easier, including dating, allowing us to interact and connect with a plethora of new people–even those that were deemed unreachable just fifteen minutes beforehand.
Inside OKCupid: The math behind online dating talks about the math formula that is used to match people with others on the website OKCupid, the number one website behind online dating. Christian Rudder, one of the founders of OKCupid, examines how an algorithm can be used to link two people and to examine their compatibility based on a series of questions. As they answer more questions with similar answers, their compatibility increases.
- See more at:
http://blogs.ams.org/mathgradblog/2016/06/...
Posted By: How May I Help You NC
Tuesday, June 21st 2016 at 2:24PM
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