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Ummm, I like other people precisely because they aren't me. My soulmate is not a duplicate of me. They are a compliment. At best, 8^8 might expose someone who ends up making a lot of the same decisions as me. Boring!
You could of course also search for someone who is, in all aspects, the complete opposite of you :)
There seems to be an awful lot of gratuitous negativity going on here. The site was on Reddit yesterday, now it's on the front page of HN. Maybe the author can't throw a lot of resources at it, or they used the project as an excuse to learn a new stack. Who knows. Maybe it was slow for you. Maybe it's not a mathematically sound idea. Maybe the questions aren't ideal. The CAPTCHA isn't ideal. Who cares? There's no nee…
> By [gratuitous negativity] we mean negativity that adds nothing of substance to a comment.
I would say that what I've seen here tends to be constructive. Even the criticisms of speed are not gratuitous - they're about an important issue affecting the site.
I do see some comments that are needlessly negative, so props for the reminder, but I wouldn't call it "an awful lot".
It's fascinating (not being snarky) that this post has received about 50+ votes since I first saw it, and I've not once been able to pull the site up completely (never made it past the bot detection, and most of the time, won't even come up). So I'm trying to understand the phenomenon: - HN folks are bookmarking it for later based on comments (even though it may/may not be worthy of a +1) - HN folks are +1'ing it bas…
Also, you also have to account for people who clicked +1 in the early life of the link, where it wasn't being crushed, and lead more people to it.
Here is an alternative algorithm: spend some effort finding a good enough partner, and at least as much effort building a good relationship with him or her.
I like this site: it shows the widespread idea in its purest form. Kind of a reductio ad absurdum.
"Take the 8^8 test and the likelihood of someone else answering in the exact same pattern as yourself is 1 in 16,777,216" That requires A) the distribution of answers is even across all 8 options, and B) there are zero correlations between any two answers in the quiz. Not to mention that the 8 questions have to pretty accurately split the space of human personalities down into eigen-answers that explain the most vari…
The survey instrument could be perfectly constructed and the methodology still grossly flawed. Because the population only consists of people who are willing to take the test [and have internet access and speak English etc.] generalizing the data is problematic at best.
There is NO way that performance should be so bad given current load.
Some of the questions are frustrating. For instance question #4 is "YOU SAVE AN OLD LADY'S LIFE. IN GRATITUDE SHE GIVES YOU $100,000. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH MOST OF IT?" The obvious answer for me is, "Save it." But all possible answers are ways to spend it or give it away. I chose "Move to a nicer neighborhood", but that really is NOT who I am...
It's fascinating (not being snarky) that this post has received about 50+ votes since I first saw it, and I've not once been able to pull the site up completely (never made it past the bot detection, and most of the time, won't even come up). So I'm trying to understand the phenomenon: - HN folks are bookmarking it for later based on comments (even though it may/may not be worthy of a +1) - HN folks are +1'ing it bas…
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The survey instrument could be perfectly constructed and the methodology still grossly flawed. Because the population only consists of people who are willing to take the test [and have internet access and speak English etc.] generalizing the data is problematic at best.
So what? If you are searching for people who are like you, then they are also likely to be in the same demographic.
There is a widespread idea that the way to find true love is to spend all your effort searching for one optimal partner. Here is an alternative algorithm: spend some effort finding a good enough partner, and at least as much effort building a good relationship with him or her. I like this site: it shows the widespread idea in its purest form. Kind of a reductio ad absurdum.