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"Big Brother&amp;#x27;s Watching (You And Your Date Awkwardly Fight Over The Check At That Cramped Wine Bar). You know how, every once in awhile, you wind up dating a guy from OKCupid who totally shouldn&amp;#x27;t seem your type? He&amp;#x27;s a blonde--you prefer dark hair. He&amp;#x27;s into computers--you&amp;#x27;re an artist. And yet, you&amp;#x27;re mysteriously hitting it off! Turns out that any unexpected sparks that fly aren&amp;#x27;t so unexpected after all: CBS reports that OKCupid&amp;#x27;s team of mathematicians are examining more than just your profile information to come up with your matches via a complicated programmed-in equation called an algorithm (or just do what I do, refer to it as &amp;quot;math magic&amp;quot;!). For instance, if you say you prefer brunettes, but click on more blondes, they adjust your preferences accordingly within the algorithm. So if I say I like fit, career-minded guys who work in finance, but my type is actually lethargic huskies who enjoy cheese and procrastination, the algorithm has totally already figured that out. While the rest of OKCupid fixes you up based on profile info, the algorithm is there to tweak the results in order to give you the best hope for sparks with your date. The zsa zsa zu, as Carrie Bradshaw once referred to it. On the one hand, you might end up with true love because the algorithm knows you better than you know yourself. On the other hand... uh, the algorithm knows you better than you know yourself? This is the future. And I, personally, hope there are huskies in mine. :3 Do you guys think the algorithm is creepy or helpful? More online dating: *Online Dating: A Few Key Questions To Ask A Guy *Online Dating: Two Examples of Why the &amp;quot;Visitors to Your Profile&amp;quot; Function Just Gets Everybody in Trouble *The All-Time Worst Online Dating Stories *Online Dating: Love it? Hate it? And Have You Checked Out Glamour Matchmaker Yet? Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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