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Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by mdpopescu »

edem wrote: post #108
tjradcliffe wrote: post #16

The basic claim is false on many levels: Very few of us are lucky enough to come across our soulmate within our lifetimes. We tend to choose our friends and spouses from the limited pool of people available in our immediate vicinity: students at our schools, people who live in our neighborhoods, colleagues at our workplaces. Statistically, it is extremely unlikely that we will come across our soulmate. First off, the…

> There are only 5000 people in the world? Did I miss something?

It was a joke, but I found it funny - he explains it with "if there were more, I wouldn't bump into the same people all the time". In other words, his world (the set of people he normally encounters) is made of at most 5000 people.

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by SwellJoe »

eevilspock wrote: post #110
DanielStraight wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for putting into clear words my gut impression that this wouldn't produce the intended result. I wonder if you couldn't do better with binary questions. I'm reminded of the site http://www.correlated.org/ . Suppose you were to ask a bunch of binary questions, and then use some statistics to find questions that have fairly evenly distributed and non-correlated results, then take 24 of the best questions by t…

okcupid does exactly this. Most of their questions are submitted by the users themselves, and they have hundreds if not thousands of them, but they present the questions to you in the order of most differentiating first. You can answer as many or as few as you want, but matches get better as you answer more, with monotonically diminishing returns. You also get to say which answers you would accept from your match (do…

I suspect OKC can make much more accurate predictions than this site, as they have vastly more data (some users answer thousands of questions, most users who are active for more than a few months have answered a couple hundred), vastly more users to compare, and they are pretty savvy about statistical analysis (reading their old blog posts is quite educational on the subject).

But, even given all that data...I find about half of my 99% matches (of which I've talked to maybe a half dozen and gone on a date with maybe four) aren't particularly compatible or interesting, to me. There seem to be other factors at play that just aren't measurable. And, heck, maybe being just like someone else isn't what makes an ideal friend/lover/partner.

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by hvm »

oaktowner wrote: post #87
hvm wrote: post #19

Yeah, the site is painfully slow. A site with a multiple choice test should handle thousands of users at a time with a tiny server. How is this thing made?

I know this sounds mean-spirited, but it's not. I'd be interested to know how this was developed as an example of what not to do. I wonder what the architecture is (and how it could/should be improved).

Well to be honest after many attempts to try it out I started to get a bit frustrated and annoyed.

From the errors returned I'm pretty sure it's a PHP backend. Considering the expertise of the average PHP developer I don't think I need to say more (this might sound mean but it's not).

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by brohee »

The FAQ has some funny nuggets...

"Psychology is a science" - Anyone following Retractation Watch may beg to differ...

"8^8 is blocked outside of countries where English is both the official language and the most common vernacular." - Could take it from France, no VPN involved...

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by chrisra »

I don't like the idea of finding a soulmate, like there's only one person who you can be truly happy with.

You find someone, and then work your guts out to be lovable and to love, and you become soulmates.

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by asadlionpk »

personjerry wrote: post #103
btilly wrote: post #97

Interesting idea. Bad execution. 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 th…

I suspect at each POST request the website is attempting to match (and filter) against all existing results.

Maybe the server is a single nodejs instance (or something single-threaded). So requests are queued and take longer.

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by raverbashing »

raverbashing wrote: post #122
eevilspock wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

okcupid does exactly this. Most of their questions are submitted by the users themselves, and they have hundreds if not thousands of them, but they present the questions to you in the order of most differentiating first. You can answer as many or as few as you want, but matches get better as you answer more, with monotonically diminishing returns. You also get to say which answers you would accept from your match (do…

> My gut tells me it's akin to doing principle component analysis Or a decision tree, maybe

Since I can't edit, here are some more details on what OkCupid does http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/page/3/
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