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The math behind OK Cupid's matching algorithm is surprisingly simple. It's just some addition, multiplication, a little bit of square roots. The tricky part in designing it, though, was figuring out how to take something mysterious, human attraction, and break it into components that a computer can work with.
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Inside OKCupid: The math of online dating - Christian Rudder
Key Vocabulary
1. behind
behind
[bɪˈhaɪnd] (adv.)
in front of
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below
[bɪˈləʊ] (adv.)
underneath
[ˌʌndəˈniːθ] (adv.)
above
[əˈbʌv] (adv.)
2. addition
addition
[əˈdɪʃn] (n.)
subtraction
[səbˈtrækʃn] (n.)
multiplication
[ˌmʌltɪplɪˈkeɪʃn] (n.)
devision
[dɪˈvɪʒn] (n.)
4. figure out
figure out
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