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> Tinder has an incentive to keep the paid users paid my making sure it is difficult for them to find a match An evil data scientist would put almost exclusive
by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> Tinder has an incentive to keep the paid users paid my making sure it is difficult for them to find a match
An evil data scientist would put almost exclusively users on your screen who you are interested in but they are not interested in you to boost your spendings and would mix a small portion of good bidirectional matches just to make his purpose less obvious. Fortunately evil data scientists does not exist... I mean I definitely wasn't paid to do anything like that. Never.
- jliptzin 5y agoThey don’t even have to be doing that on purpose, if one just optimizes the revenue per user metric he’s effectively doing the same thing even if not on purpose.
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- Ensorceled 5y agoIt's ever better if you use some type of AI for this, then no one "knows" that are actually doing that.
- NumberCruncher 5y ago"I didn't do it on purpose" and "no one knew what we are actually doing". I gonna call it the "data scientist's switchblade...