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DemonKia -> RE: Discussion of basic algorithms for the law of S:D (supply & demand) on CM (1/16/2010 4:57:08 PM)
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FR, after read thru
lol
Okay. I was a stat major. I love thinking quantitatively, probabilistically, & analytically, so I find the notion to be a hoot.
The critique of greatest salience is that humans 'operate' on thousands of levels, thus thousands of variables that need accounting & controlling for. Sounds daunting until we remember we're using computers, here, lol. That makes it a smidge less daunting, computers can crunch that data. Some clever math monkey still needs to set up the hypothesis, elucidate the variables (definitions, ranges, etc), obtain data, & etc, but it's very doable . . . . .
I tend to think of an 'algorithm' as being (a) recursive function(s), but that may just be the color of my recall & that I'm too lazy to wiki right this moment . . . .
Anyways, OKCupid is using some combo of their 'Match Questions' & the (mostly user-created) tests to provide probabilistic match estimates for users of the site . . . .. If'n ya didn't know . . . . .
lol
It matched me to someone in my local out-&-organized-kink community, which was funny as hell, especially as it was not a match after all. But it was amusing for both of us, we laughed about it at the recent munch . . .. .
Which demonstrates that, while OKC's ostensibly a generalized dating / social-networking site, there are kinksters using it, & it can match the kinky up, so, it gets some points from me for that . . . . .
Anyways, regardless of site, I tend to think it's as much or more about how the users make use of these sites (en toto) as it as about the sites themselves or who else is using them.
For instance, clearly, the trick to making most effective use of CM is to participate in the message boards & / or the chat (text or video) on a regular basis. Similarly, the best use of online dating / socializing sources seems to be as a supplement to one's real-life interactions.
& I wanna especially note the power of 'frequenting' a scene. Being a regular to a variety of social scenes in combination with patience & persistence, seems most likely to have the greatest associated yield curve . . . . . .
[:D]
Ah, as for that whole supply-demand thing, huh, ya know, I generally work it a slightly different way. I tend to think of it in more of a marketing framework (I know, marketing is evil, but I am a demon, after all, lol). I think of myself as being, at my most optimistic, a one-in-a-million taste. This yields an expected possibilities space of approximately 6,700-ish persons. (If I was strictly monosexual (ie, hetero or homo), then that space would be some 3,350-ish, natch.) On my more pessimistic days I figure I'm closer to a one-in-a-billion taste & my potential 'market' is more like 6 or 7 people on the planet . . . . . ...
I guess I don't really get too hung up on potential supply-demand issues cuz there's 6.7+ billion people available to choose from, I've probably only met in the tens or hundreds of thousands of those people, & there's still an awful lot of people left to meet . . . . . .
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