Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror offers an incisive perspective on how the human struggle adapts as technology progresses. The episode, “Hang the DJ,” (HtDJ) is a story about what happens when an algorithm can predict love. Wait a second … that’s what Nanaya does! In my last post, I described how the algorithm in HtDJ works.Continue Reading
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Black Mirror’s “Hang the DJ” Explained
Even if you haven’t seen it, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve heard of Charlie Brooker’s series, Black Mirror. In its first two seasons, Black Mirror used its standalone episodes to explore the dark side of upcoming and speculative technologies. New seasons, however, have included more uplifting episodes that depicts technology actually helping peoples’ livesContinue Reading
Probability and Nanaya’s Predictive Power
When you get your Nanaya Romance report, one of the first things you’ll see is a chart predicting your odds of finding love over the next seven years. For everyone, this is a line that starts at 0% as we calculate odds based on the moment you take the test. As you meet people in time,Continue Reading
Making Sense of Nanaya Report Scores
The Nanaya algorithm does a lot of heavy lifting to determine your romantic future, generating thousands of numbers that tell us a lot about your next seven years of romance. Unfortunately, unless you’re a computer it’s hard to actually to make sense of them. When Nanaya comes out in a few weeks, you’ll notice several differentContinue Reading
“Should I Dump My Girlfriend? Will I Find Another?”
Well let’s not get too hasty. Earlier this week, I posted the Nanaya white paper to ArXiv: “Should I Dump My Girlfriend? Will I Find Another?” Or: An Algorithm for the Forecasting of Romantic Options. The title is a bit melodramatic but it’s a reference to Peter Backus’s “Why I Don’t Have a Girlfriend.” ApologiesContinue Reading