Findings: Hitting It Off, Thanks to Algorithms of Love
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As online matchmakers compete for customers using algorithms in the search for love, the battle has intrigued academic researchers who study the mating game.
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A new awareness of promoting Âan image of joy and wellness.Â
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By mail and online, the "love her" camp has an edge
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NEW YORK  - Men and women often decide in  minutes who they want to date, and base that decision on  largely superficial factors, new research from a speed dating  service suggests.
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Given our love affair with high-priced luxury goods, and their association with status and power, itâs possible that weâve come to experience cerebral delight in response to things that promise that cachet.
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Mike Wallner has thrown together some stats for the latest edition of the pecl/http package to test its response performance.   The results surprised me, because it clearly shows that the performance drop for starting the PHP engine and doing the neccessary negotiation to provide caching is not that bad.   There's a chart of the results as well as a full PDF with all of the stats the graph maps out. He includes the legend to make the graph easier to understand.
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Will the search engine leviathan end the hunt for a commercial hybrid? In Autopia.
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Computers long ago ceased to be simply tools. Instead, like digital music players and digital cameras, they are coming to reflect peopleÂs tastes and aspirations.
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Valentines Day in South Korea means  chocolates, romantic dinners and a high-tech mobile phone  device that can secretly check the passion in the voice of a  lover.
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The search engine is good for more than just scouring the Web. It's also a powerful tool for the shadier side of online data collection.
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Tech-savvy singletons take heart -- research shows looking for love in cyberspace is one of the most successful ways to find a partner.
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Looking at the steam coming off the mail in my inbox this week, I definitely need a place to lay low for a while. One reader kindly recommended Geek Cruises, where I could work on my tan and my Perl programming skills at the same time. He also thought it would help my love life but I'm not so sure. The brochures are full of guys with goatees and laptops -- not exactly my idea of The Love Boat.
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Tycho:  After seeing Chore Wars mentioned yesterday, the opportunities for manipulating people seemed...  rich.  The possibilities for mashups based on this data are also rich - I wonder if it could be exposed, somehow.  When my charge is old enough to manipulate in this way, my crib is going to fucking sparkle.
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WASHINGTON - Planning revenge really does feel sweet, according to a new study of brain scans. Researchers in Switzerland said the brain centres linked to enjoyment &quot;lit up&quot; in young men who punished those who cheated them.
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By Steve Connor  The Google search engine owes its phenomenal success to the way it carries out searches based on analysing the relationships between websites. Conventional rivals simply searched on the basis of how many times the search term appears on a web-page - a far inferior approach.
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A team of researchers is using the Facebook habits of students to study how personal tastes, habits and values affect the formation of social relationships.
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Research has begun shedding light on that most basic of all human expressions of love: the smooch.