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Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by UUMMUU »

saiya-jin wrote: post #56

How many of you folks have found a long lasting, good quality date via Tinder? Serious question, no pun intended. For me, albeit using it for only cca 6 months, it was useless. Same for people around me. Yes, I got tons of likes, many conversations, a few dates that could be more if wanted, but women available via this were mostly... uninteresting. I am a bit picky (I am quite sporty type, and silicone beauties whose…

For me, the problem with Tinder was the ease of saying "next!" as soon as you found the slightest flaw in your date. "Oh, she talked too much/little" "She didn't share my exact political opinions" etc. It was too easy to jump right back on Tinder and find another date for the next day. I keep going back to that show Next on MTV where as soon as the person found one thing they didn't like they'd yell "NEXT!" and they got a new date. This cheapens the dating process so much because you are so much less malleable. Great app for having fun though.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by warfangle »

junto wrote: post #67
donkeyd wrote: post #44

Tinder should start using Eigenfaces to give people an estimate of the chance of finding a match when they sign up. You know, to manage expectations. "With your face and your standards you have a 1% chance to find a match. Please lower your standards or improve your face."

"improve your face". See South Korea plastic surgery stats: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/04/daily-c...

See also, lawsuit over similar: http://entertainment.ie/wtf/Chinese-man-divorces-and-sues-wi...

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by cinquemb »

Pretty cool. I really like that people are exploring ways to come in contact with one another. I wonder if someone would add a meta data filter that if a twitter /Instagram /vine handle is found, grab the max tweets, vines, posts (filtering out reposts/tweets perhaps) and see how they cluster compared to past selections/interactions.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by mpthrapp »

saiya-jin wrote: post #56

How many of you folks have found a long lasting, good quality date via Tinder? Serious question, no pun intended. For me, albeit using it for only cca 6 months, it was useless. Same for people around me. Yes, I got tons of likes, many conversations, a few dates that could be more if wanted, but women available via this were mostly... uninteresting. I am a bit picky (I am quite sporty type, and silicone beauties whose…

I met my current girlfriend on Tinder. We've been together a year as of the end of this month.

I had tried OkCupid as well and had no luck, though I'm not sure that was the fault of the site.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by gurkendoktor »

ac166 wrote: post #8

I can't quite articulate why fully, but to me this article sums up everything that's wrong with programmers and the community in general (of which I consider myself a part). :(

Because it is superficial and cheekily disrespectful of traditional social interactions, and typical "pre-bro" programmers take these interactions very seriously, since producing reliability is our duty above all? That's how I feel sometimes.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by draugadrotten »

D-Coder wrote: post #58
Padding wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love how this is a perfectly valid question given the context .. even if the phrasing may be somewhat off. Back to topic, I'd think boobs (and other parts of the body that aren't part of the face) won't have much impact on prefrences. Would you really reject someone because of their cup size, despite their pretty face? Similary, would you accept someone just because of their cup size despite their less-than-pretty…

Why shouldn't cup size be important to many people? "Would you really reject someone because of their face, despite their excellent cup size? Similary, would you accept someone just because of their face despite their less-than-excellent cup size?"

Bad boy. The ideology du jour is left-wing feminism and HBTQ. Boob quality is a male desire, and hence is chauvinist and bad.

Now, if tinder offered girls the ability to filter guys by wallet thickness and status... that would be different and totally appropriate.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

Ixiaus wrote: post #55
sarasastro wrote: post #28

How does this take boobs into consideration ?!

It's a great question but a terribly sexist way of asking it.

How is it sexist? Surely if female attraction to particular forms of female bodies is sexist then the vast majority of women are sexist?

Crudely termed, granted.

Of course the GP could be male too I suppose; not sure if that makes a difference.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by matthewmacleod »

sjtrny wrote: post #21
matthewmacleod wrote: post #9

All were in agreement that it is not creepy, though some felt it was borderline It definitely is creepy, though.

How? It isn't invading anyone's privacy or personal space. The actions the bot performs are exactly the same as what humans do.

It doesn't have to be an invasive action to be creepy. I'm confident that setting up a bot to pretend to be human and to engage in conversation is pretty creepy, and I don't think that's a particularly outlandish position to take.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by daemonfire300 »

draugadrotten wrote: post #87
D-Coder wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why shouldn't cup size be important to many people? "Would you really reject someone because of their face, despite their excellent cup size? Similary, would you accept someone just because of their face despite their less-than-excellent cup size?"

Bad boy. The ideology du jour is left-wing feminism and HBTQ. Boob quality is a male desire, and hence is chauvinist and bad. Now, if tinder offered girls the ability to filter guys by wallet thickness and status... that would be different and totally appropriate.

Depends on the angle. I would say if it comes to Tinder all you get is a picture. So the only metric is the body-form-shape-sizes etc. If the size of some body parts can be measured with the submitted images I see nothing wrong here. Wallet thinkness and status are not represented in our data (image), so it would not make sense to include those metrics, since its out of scope.
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