{"id":4895,"date":"2017-01-04T12:16:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=4895"},"modified":"2017-01-04T12:16:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:16:22","slug":"big-dater-hilariously-hacking-okcupids-match-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/04\/big-dater-hilariously-hacking-okcupids-match-algorithm\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Dater: Hilariously hacking OKCupid&#8217;s match algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monastic brainiac\u00a0Chris McKinlay put his Ph.D &amp; supercomputer access to work figuring out how to make himself the single most attractive man for thousands of women on OKCupid, as he <a href=\"https:\/\/themoth.org\/stories\/data-mining-for-dates\">recounts in this great 15-minute piece<\/a> for The Moth. I got a kick out of hearing about so many tools of our trade (optimization, retention analysis, etc.) applied to such squishy human problems. I think you\u2019d dig it. [Via Maria Brenny]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NewImage-1.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"302\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monastic brainiac\u00a0Chris McKinlay put his Ph.D &amp; supercomputer access to work figuring out how to make himself the single most attractive man for thousands of women on OKCupid, as he recounts in this great 15-minute piece for The Moth. I got a kick out of hearing about so many tools of our trade (optimization, retention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4896,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions\/4896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}