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Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by saiya-jin »

alexbecker wrote: post #98
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…

Were you trying to sound like an asshole, or is that just who you are?

why, because i don't desperately sleep with all the girls that I meet in my life, just because they show interest? if not obvious from what I wrote, that's EXACTLY kind of thing I am not looking for, and for me, and few friends it's exactly the kind of thing Tinder offers. All the guys and girls I know that behave like this, there are some deep(er) issues in their past, usually broken families, mostly missing/abusive father figure. I tried to fix one girl like that that I deeply loved, and she did almost break me. Almost :)

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by graeme »

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…

>(or, more blatantly who wants to seriously date slutty used opposite sex).

This might be part of the problem. You were on an app with a reputation for hookups, yet you're slut-shaming those using it.

It's fine to only want relationships, but you could do so without claiming that people who aren't shy about enjoying sex are scum.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by saiya-jin »

hobo_mark wrote: post #91
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…

Geneva, from the little I know about it, lies inside its own very exceptional bubble of wealth and privilege. I would guess that such an atmosphere tends to attract a specific kind of women, your experience does not surprise me a lot. I wonder what you mean by the 'French mentality towards relationships' though...

Probably right on spot, this place attracts specific type of people, at least for many job positions.

As for French attitude, this is very subjective and local, so YMMV. Attitude of girls I met (not only dating, just friends) is that more you sleep around, the better. One girl for example was proudly saying that she did sleep with less than 20 guys, and how cool is that and I am so lucky! Or my current GF got uniform advices from her french colleagues when she broke off her last relationship, that she should sleep around for a while "to heal". Stories like these all over the place, consistent.

These are not some trashy girls I met randomly on some beerfest or in stinking old bar, but women holding significant positions in multinational corps. This is of course not a general talk about all french girls, just a little sample I had an honor to meet in Geneva & around. And it doesn't apply to swiss french, they're different species altogether :)

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by tibbon »

The predefined message trees were kinda terrible, "I can't wait to introduce you to my mom"?!?!?

Aside from that, its pretty neat.

Edit: kinda wish it ran data analysis on multiple threads/cores. Edit2: It seems to be taking up 61 threads right now in fact... so its doing that quite well.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by saiya-jin »

graeme wrote: post #113
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…

>(or, more blatantly who wants to seriously date slutty used opposite sex). This might be part of the problem. You were on an app with a reputation for hookups, yet you're slut-shaming those using it. It's fine to only want relationships, but you could do so without claiming that people who aren't shy about enjoying sex are scum.

I enjoy sex too! Just preferring quality over quantity, that's all :) Plus hookup attitude does bring variable, usually low quantity and quality, among other potential issues.

But it's true Tinder app didn't work for me, and I am very happy for those that wrote success stories here. I would have different attitude towards it if I was say 17 again. Glad I am not :)

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by rflrob »

karmacondon wrote: post #57
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…

To quote /r/ShowerThoughts: "The problem with Tinder is that you only meet people who are at a point in their lives where Tinder makes sense"

The same was true of singles bars before we had OKTinderList. Even if neither person really likes singles bars per se, having a culturally agreed upon way to meet people has some value, and once you've met your person of choice there, you don't need to ever go back.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by hobo_mark »

saiya-jin wrote: post #114
hobo_mark wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Geneva, from the little I know about it, lies inside its own very exceptional bubble of wealth and privilege. I would guess that such an atmosphere tends to attract a specific kind of women, your experience does not surprise me a lot. I wonder what you mean by the 'French mentality towards relationships' though...

Probably right on spot, this place attracts specific type of people, at least for many job positions. As for French attitude, this is very subjective and local, so YMMV. Attitude of girls I met (not only dating, just friends) is that more you sleep around, the better. One girl for example was proudly saying that she did sleep with less than 20 guys, and how cool is that and I am so lucky! Or my current GF got uniform…

The swiss are no different really, they're just more likely to base their decision on your net worth.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by tibbon »

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."

Since Tinder imports images from Facebook, this could be used to suggest the 'best' photos from their Facebook. In my brief looking over Tinder, it seems that images of people in groups, their dogs or their cars are probably ineffective and would score poorly here.

One of the biggest easy questions is, "is this a face?"

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by oldmanjay »

yourbackstop wrote: post #49
karmacondon wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone pointed out in another thread, we're ruled by algorithms now and have been for quite some time. Tinder itself is based on a human processed algorithm: IF ((I think that he/she is hot) && (he/she thinks I am hot)) THEN date(); The good thing about computer algorithms is that we can open them up and see how they work. Like, y'know, hackers. This program is doing the same basic task as a person would, "Look a…

Maybe you want to look into the 'Psycho Pass' series for some illustration of the risks.

Then we can read some Heinlein to learn why libertarianism is the obvious correct answer to every problem, as well as the valuable insight that the only thing on the minds of attractive young women is sex with old men.

I learn so much from fiction.

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