Intriguing! I have a friend that did a web scraper on OK Cupid several years before that article, perhaps 2009, based on the same idea: people can see when you

Intriguing! I have a friend that did a web scraper on OK Cupid several years before that article, perhaps 2009, based on the same idea: people can see when you looked at their profile or something. He didn't optimize much beyond that and wasn't meeting people he considered attractive, he just wanted to have an additional pool of meetings and volume of hookups, which was successful. Both he and the author of this story were able to warp the male experience in order to have many messages from women to sort though. I find this one interesting as the author here was actually looking to have a relationship, and eventually proposed and removed himself from the pool. I hadn't seen anyone do a data driven approach for that. 88 first dates though, a lot of effort. I'm somewhat familiar with LA, haha its sad he cut out the women from the east side due to distance because he's normally around UCLA. The east side women sounded pretty fun, younger, unencumbered but having suboptimal living environments. Which sounds about right for Los Angeles. Makes me kind of want to ponder if anyone has done two apartments in LA, westside and downtown.