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Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by JDiculous »

Wait, so guys are still getting matches on there? Am I the only one who doesn't get matches anymore?

A couple years ago I'd get like 5-10 matches/day using the app for like 10-15 mins/day tops. Every time I'd log in, the first 5-10 or so profiles would be from people who swiped right on me.

Now I seriously never get matches anymore. I'd estimate that it'd take me 30 minutes of swiping right on every single profile to even get a single match. I live in one of the most population dense areas (Manhattan) and consider myself at least average looking.

Anyways I've abandoned Tinder for a competitor. I'm getting matches in the new app at a rate that's more in line with how Tinder used to be for me.

My theory is that guys on Tinder just began swiping right on every single profile. I guess it's more efficient that way because then you can just filter the matches afterwards who you know are already interested in you. But the downside is that it makes women more selective.

Even then though, it doesn't make sense that I can load up Tinder now, swipe right on the first 100 profiles, and not get a single match (unless they changed the algorithm to not put people who liked you you at the top).

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by JeremyMorgan »

mpthrapp wrote: post #85
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.

I'm pretty sure Tinder and OkCupid and the like have just slightly different results statistically as any other form of dating.

Because of the efficiency and availability there is a chance of more misses and people not taking it as seriously, but overall I think it would be foolish to say real relationships cannot be developed by these sites.

Best of luck to you both.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by jimmaswell »

lectrick wrote: post #135
nemothekid wrote: post #5

I feel the human race has made a rather amusing step forward to rule-by-algorithm. 30 years ago this would be dystopian, today its a byproduct of a mish-mash of open source libraries.

I think this will lead to a more interesting world. I secretly believe this will ALSO lead to realizing that you can't "automate all the things," and that some small subset of things will persistently, stubbornly, refuse to be "algorithm'd out". For the record, if you are a materialist/determinist (Dan Dennettist), then you're basically also agreeing to the postulate that eventually ALL the things (including ourselve…

Just because everything is computable doesn't mean it will be feasible to compute everything or that every algorithm will be discovered

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by JimboOmega »

brosky117 wrote: post #149

Reminds me of anaface.com (where they tell you how attractive you are based off of symmetry). I'm married so this is just plain entertainment for me but I think there are some genuine use cases for this on the Tinder side of things. Think about it. If Tinder knew your preferences and was able to analyze the faces of all the users nearest to you, it could make your feed so much more relevant. In the end, Tinder's succ…

Kind of. You need attractive users who will interact with you, not just that you get to swipe.

Honestly, taking guys swiping out of the equation until women have swiped them would already massively improve the experience for most users. I've run into plenty of guys complaining that in a week and hundreds of swipes, they get none in return; and women complaining that the app must be broken because everyone they swipe right to already liked them back.

Of course Tinder is interesting already because it's gotten people to buy into the bare minimum effort side of things - unlike other sites which generally try to find good matches based on personality, shared friends, or anything.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by JimboOmega »

JDiculous wrote: post #151

Wait, so guys are still getting matches on there? Am I the only one who doesn't get matches anymore? A couple years ago I'd get like 5-10 matches/day using the app for like 10-15 mins/day tops. Every time I'd log in, the first 5-10 or so profiles would be from people who swiped right on me. Now I seriously never get matches anymore. I'd estimate that it'd take me 30 minutes of swiping right on every single profile to…

Swiping right constantly is close to my strategy, and most guys, because of the low rate of matches. I've been known to swipe right rather than wait for images to load, definitely.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by Apofis »

JDiculous wrote: post #151

Wait, so guys are still getting matches on there? Am I the only one who doesn't get matches anymore? A couple years ago I'd get like 5-10 matches/day using the app for like 10-15 mins/day tops. Every time I'd log in, the first 5-10 or so profiles would be from people who swiped right on me. Now I seriously never get matches anymore. I'd estimate that it'd take me 30 minutes of swiping right on every single profile to…

What's the alternative?

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by freyr »

JDiculous wrote: post #151

Wait, so guys are still getting matches on there? Am I the only one who doesn't get matches anymore? A couple years ago I'd get like 5-10 matches/day using the app for like 10-15 mins/day tops. Every time I'd log in, the first 5-10 or so profiles would be from people who swiped right on me. Now I seriously never get matches anymore. I'd estimate that it'd take me 30 minutes of swiping right on every single profile to…

> and consider myself at least average looking

There's your problem. Many men on various online forums have compared their response rates when using a photo of an average looking man (or even above average looking man) and when using a photo of a very attractive man. The average man gets almost no matches, and the attractive man gets nearly all matches -- and, apparently, a surprising number of invitations for casual sex. It seems to be a case of the Pareto principle, with 20% of men claiming 80% of the rewards, though the numbers might be closer to 5% and 95%.

I'd assume this is a consequence of skewed supply and demand, where most men are happy to match with anyone and therefore swipe right frequently, and women receive many potential matches and can afford to be selective. I suspect this plays out in the dating scene as well (e.g., a small percentage of men sleep with a disproportionately large percentage of women). But the situation seems even more skewed on Tinder, where all emphasis is on physical appearance.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by TheHypnotist »

tibbon wrote: post #115

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.

At least tell you are a fan of moms??
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