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What she found most entertaining, however, was that the company that had designed the booth had taken a less than scientific approach. The company, which happened to be a special effects studio, had adjusted their aging algorithm by asking staff members whether the booth’s predictions seemed believable. The result was that Museum of Science booth reinforced an exaggerated and inaccurate idea of the personal changes that come with...
According to an explanation posted on the website last night, a new search algorithm—implemented recently to speed up processing—was to blame. The new algorithm only matches the beginnings of people’s names, so users who searched for Moore as “Ty” would not find his name among the results, because he is listed as “Tracy Tyrone Moore II.” Users who searched for Tracy Moore would have found that his page was still...
...response to complaints, the site reinstated the old algorithm...
...years ago, Dan Stillman and Matt Eaton, then sophomores at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, launched WesMatch.com a site featuring a humorous, elaborate personality questionnaire. The service allows students to rate themselves and their potential mates in categories ranging from sex drive to "socialisticbutterflyosity." An algorithm then calculates a student's compatibility with a list of matches. "I wanted a vegan girlfriend who plays the cello and likes folk music," Stillman says. The site has been a hit on the Wesleyan campus. This fall their more ambitious project, CampusMatch, may expand from five to dozens of schools...
...Blockbuster, which plans to try a similar rental program in the U.S. soon. Hastings has an advantage: like Amazon, Netflix relies on ratings--up to five stars--by its members, who are asked to weigh in on what they rent. These ratings go into the system's algorithm, and out come recommendations for movies you never knew you wanted to see. Hastings intends to start a trial download service next year. But downloading is still too daunting for most users, and who wants to watch movies on a PC anyway? "DVDs have got a good decade left in them...