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Python Scripting and Analyzing Your Way To Love
fiannaFailMan writes "Wired reports one mathematician's mission to find love online by data mining from OK Cupid and applying mathematical modeling to optimize his profile(s). His methods included using 'Python scripts to riffle through hundreds of OkCupid survey questions. He then sorted female daters into seven clusters, like "Diverse" and "Mindful," each with distinct characteristics.' But the real work began when he started going on dates."
Slashdotter has vivid coding dream in Mom's basement and find love.
Well, there's the step I never get to.
So far no results for me. They all seem to want "rich, handsome guy who loves to travel."
The cow says "Moo." The dog says "Woof." The Timothy says "Thanks, valued customer. We appreciate your input."
Have you tried "from __future__ import antigravity"?
"Great, that sounds nice. I'll have my bots talk to your bots."
Have you considered that the fact he writes Python scripts to solve his love life is the *reason* he has no love life??
Python can't stop you from being a geek...
They always start out with an super-long, totally unreasonable requirements list that includes stuff that's totally irrelevant to any imaginable scope. Through hard work and negotiation and development of what you initially bring to the table, you need to bring down the client's impossible functional specification to something workable she can reasonably be satisfied with (also beer helps). It's called "game" for a reason.
It already got funded. That's what World of Warcraft is.
Not that there aren't women in WoW, they just pretend to be guys...
However I agree with his approach to keep it short and simple.
Fuck....now you tell me. This date has lasted 8 years, 3 cars, 2 houses, and 3 kids. She just won't take a hint....but I don't want to be rude.