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Took quite a while due to the site crashing several times, but I finished it. I think of it as an interesting experiment - even if nothing ends up coming from
by Nadya 11y ago
Took quite a while due to the site crashing several times, but I finished it.
I think of it as an interesting experiment - even if nothing ends up coming from it.
My largest concern is there are about 3 questions where I was torn between two answers. I'm thinking I should create email addresses to "cover every base" by alternating my answers on those 3 questions in every permutation. On the other hand, I would feel a bit bad for using up some of the "freebies" that legitimate people might miss out on and have to pay the small fee.
@ColinWright
>8^8 should be thought of less as a scientific black box, but as a friend who claims to know someone you'll hit it off with, and wants the two of you to get together. It might be wrong, but it could very well be right.
- pavel_lishin 11y ago> On the other hand, I would feel a bit bad for using up some of the "freebies" that legitimate people might miss out on I wonder what the legality of publishing their questions and answers are. If we can duplicate their questions and answers, people could find each other on twitter with a hashtag: #my8x8is{answer 1}{answer 2}...{answer 2}
- iyn 11y agoI like your idea about the hashtag. I don't think that the definitive answers are the best approach (I'd prefer multiple answers), but it'd interesting if we were able to design a "format" that could be used to describe one's answers.
- userbinator 11y agobut it'd interesting if we were able to design a "format" that could be used to describe one's answers It's 24 bits, so how about six hex digits, like HTML colour codes?
- pavel_lishin 11y agoHaha, I really like that idea - it would be great if you could somehow make similar colors match similar people, but I guess that's not really feasible.
- iyn 11y agoYeah, it's the easiest approach if you allow only 1 answer. With multiple answers allowed we need 64 bits (using trivial encoding and representing each question/answers with 8 bits) or more, if each answer can be assigned "attribute"/priority (say user needs to order answers from the best to the worst).
- Nadya 11y agoWhat would this accomplish, other than perhaps not giving their email to 8x8? If they have taken the 8x8 test to know their answers, they may as well enter an email address to be alerted when they have a match. Rather than checking Twitter, seeing as 8x8 already plans to email you if you have a match. In theory if two Twitter users took the test and were a match - there would be no need to use a hashtag to tweet. This could be useful if enough people participated and were interested in finding an "8x7" or even "8x6" match by changing their answer of two questions. But even then, you would need enough participants who use Twitter and are willing to tweet their answers.