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Love advice from a math app (kenvanharen.com)
9 points by countersignaler on April 26, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments


Why does it assume that everyone is a lesbian or male heterosexual? Seriously, people, there are women on the Internet these days. Lots of them!


Because the author is not a politically correct ass.


Not sure if it was added after your comment, but try clicking on the link "this is SO sexist".


Also, it does not gracefully degrade for us married folks. Still amusing though.


ftfy


It says a 43% chance of finding someone better means I should keep looking? This app composes Gaussian distributions but can't even master the basic logic that if there is a less than 50% chance of doing better, I should just lock down the hottie I've got.


Better could mean 10% better or it could mean 1000 times better. If you've got a 10% chance of finding someone 100x better, then the expected return calculation heavily favors dumping your current significant other.


"Keep Looking Estimated probability of finding a better gf before age 38.0: 0.995"

2 Minutes later: "Hi baby, um, we need to talk..."


hmm... when i resubmit with the same values, it keeps changing. ranges from .006 to .011


probably an intelligent rand() value approaching fate() at the moment.




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