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Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

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  1. missedthecue · · focus · HN ↗
    Begging economists and dating app designers to understand that the problems with the dating market are not a matching problem but a clearing problem. It's very tempting to think that if one could devise a sufficiently clever algorithm they could solve these problems but it's simply barking up the wrong tree.
    1. dotcoma · · focus · HN ↗
      So why, in your opinion, do people not finalise the deal?
      1. porphyra · · focus · HN ↗
        too kiasu
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