I love data, algorithms, numbers, formulas and systems. Im going to go ahead and toss out the idea that very few liberal arts degree holders (who took 9th grade geometry and one Statistics class as the only post junior high mathematics training) are as in love with math as I am. I mean its possible, not likely or plausible, but possible that I may accidentally create an artificial intelligence dedicated to either killing lots of people or generating random cartoon plots (God help us if both datasets are some how incorporated into one uncontrollable whole). I also enjoy TED talks, and was completely blown away this one. For as much time as I spend trying to develop systems to overcome problems people dont ever think to apply systems too, this idea had never even occurred to me. Ive even been up to my elbows in the guts of the personality typing and matchmaking systems used by some of these sites.... and my approach to romance has always been to just impulsively launch an adventure and invite someone along for the ride, spur of the moment (apologies if youve been the subject of one of these attempts.... at least it turned out well enough were still friends! :D ). I thought Id gotten advanced when I came up with a list of 4 qualities that were essential to me, and decided that Id stick to only asking out someone that I was confident hit those traits.... and this was a concept I adopted only post committing to a relationship for life (setting oneself up for failure 101 right there). In all honesty, Im still wrestling with whether or not I even should be dating, given my illness, baggage, past, situation, etc... so thats certainly the reason Ive been arbitrary in asking others out on lets see what happens dates without much warning or fleeing from all human contact without advance notice. Im working through a lot more stuff than I thought it humanly possible for one individual to wrack up, and thats going to be touch and go for a long time. But, this idea of using science and data not to build a universal system from scratch (I have worked out better speed dating for nerds on paper in my free time; because I dont already have way too much on plate and sometimes sleep more than 30 minutes during a convention) but to build a personal system for identifying potential partners really struck me as novel. I watched the video twice. And not (completely) because Im sleep deprived and working too much and way to highly strung at the moment. It made me think about the way we can find correlations in all sorts of relationships, solve all types of problems by being proactive instead of just waiting until a wild impulse stirs us (me) into acting and seeing what results from it. I was intrigued enough to share because some of you probably math as much as I do. And some of you are desperately lonely and mopey about dating (I picked up on the subtle tones in your posts). So it might be interesting to you on levels. https://ted/talks/amy_webb_how_i_hacked_online_dating
Posted on: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 08:29:20 +0000
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