Inside OKCupid: The math of online dating - Christian Rudder
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When two people join a dating website, they are matched according to shared interests and how they answer a number of personal questions. But how do sites calculate the likelihood of a successful relationship? Christian Rudder, one of the founders of popular dating site OKCupid, details the algorithm behind 'hitting it off.'
What other applications for algorithms do you think could be applied to a social group? OkCupid tackled dating -- what else is there?
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