Sunday, February 14, 2016

"Algorithm tries to determine whether couples should stay together or break up"

AP: When Rashied Amini's girlfriend wanted to break up two years ago, he wondered if he could mathematically prove that they should stay together. Amini was working as a systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the time. He knew how to build predictive models about space missions using algorithms. Maybe he could apply the same approach to matters of the heart.

On Friday, he launched Nanaya.co, an online site that can predict the user's chances of finding an ideal match, where it's most likely to happen, when you should settle down and how happy you're likely to be in the relationship.

It's different from the plethora of dating or matchmaking websites; some of which also use algorithms to match users with likely partners. Nanaya's predictions are based on the user's responses in relation to all the other data collected from the rest of the users in its database. Currently, about 22,000 people have taken the personality test, which enabled him to design the beta.

Before Amini adds the "stay together or break up" feature in the reports, he wants to reach at least 100,000 users to make the results more reliable. The site is aimed at people in their 20s and 30s who are wondering whether to stay in a relationship or continue to play the field.

4 comments:

virgil xenophon said...

A comment on how "hip" sayings come into being. The use of "awe-some sauce" in this commercial several months ago was the first time I'd EVER heard its use. Lately in the past two weeks I've heard it used twice in two other commercials. One for the NFL ("We'll provide the awe-some sauce" and another for some soap-opera--or was it a for a TV dramady? ("You bring the popcorn and wine, we'll provide the awe-some sauce.")

Thus is a pop culture iconic saying born..

deborah said...

vx, it's the new weak tea.

Trooper York said...

Nice nips.

Methadras said...

Shit, my marriage would have ripped that algorithm apart. I mean I am getting a divorce so it doesn't matter now. :D