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Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

https://twitter.com/tuakdotsol/status/2105105417760391258
79•rzk•12h ago
Related: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqzjzr893yv4o

Comments

beeforpork•8h ago
Nice! But is there an app with this algorithm/strategy/design for finding good matches for casually having fun together? All the apps I know suck.
PorciiVorbesc•7h ago
> finding good matches for casually having fun together?

Basically all dating apps are optimized for enabling casual hookups at this point.

>All the apps I know suck.

Do ALL the apps suck, or are you maybe not appealing enough for being picked for casual hookups by the users on the app?

nextaccountic•6h ago
The app has an incentive to suck unless you pay
whatshisface•30m ago
Go recheck your calculations, you'll notice something about their incentive in the case where you pay.
rrr_oh_man•12m ago
> Do ALL the apps suck, or are you maybe not appealing enough for being picked for casual hookups by the users on the app?

Dunno, @beeforpork sounds hawt

Joakal•7h ago
meetup and other related apps have always been best for finding people with related interests.

If they don't have your interests, feel free to start a new group?

TFNA•38m ago
Meetup got enshittified years ago already, and the changes drove away the small communities that once made up so much of the site; the only groups which prosper on it now are mainly large for-profit ventures.

In places where there is a healthy ecosystem of casual, non-rapacious meetups, that is overwhelmingly organized via Facebook, not Meetup.

exhilaration•29m ago
Thank you, I just learned a new word.

Rapacious

ADJECTIVE

1 given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.

2 inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate.

a rapacious disposition.

grasping, voracious,

Synonyms:

ravenous

Antonyms: generous

3 (of animals) subsisting by the capture of living prey; predacious.

rrr_oh_man•8m ago
FYI, Meetup got acquired by Bending Spoons and it seems it's being de-enshittified.
storywatch•6h ago
I wonder if it's made by the same people behind

https://aphrodite.global/

The project was partially started by some students/scholars from there.

djoldman•15m ago
Link to the website: https://firstdate.sandbox.gov.sg/
thomasfl•11m ago
Will Tinder be blamed for the sudden decline in fertility rate? Is there any other plausible explanstion to South Korea’s sudden and dramatic drop in fertility rate to 0.8? No matter how bad the housing market is or the job market is, there has never in history been such a drop in population.
password54321•6m ago
Yes, dating apps turbocharge hypergamy. It is not a secret that the top 10% of men get a huge share of the likes received.
pydry•9m ago
this is their third attempt at a government run dating service I think :/

it's low key kind of funny how they keep reaching for the quick fix to their collapsed birth rates instead of changing the things that would cost real money or make them less desirable to foreign investors.

throw0101c•6m ago
Stable marriage algorithm or stable matching algorithm?

> In mathematics, economics, and computer science, the Gale–Shapley algorithm (also known as the deferred acceptance algorithm,[1] propose-and-reject algorithm,[2] or Boston Pool algorithm[1]) is an algorithm for finding a solution to the stable matching problem.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale–Shapley_algorithm

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_matching_problem

laybak•4m ago
the Singaporean government is often described as having a "parental" approach. I guess this move would be on brand

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Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

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