Retrievr is a web app where you draw something and retrievr goes and finds all the images on the photo sharing service Flickr that resemble what you drew. I had fun with this, trying to draw people and seeing what retrievr returned. Perhaps an enterprising dating site will integrate a similar feature where you are presented with a grid of people and click on those who most closely resemble the type of person you want to date, Darwinism meets Hot-or-not.
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“Perhaps an enterprising dating site will integrate a similar feature where you are presented with a grid of people and click on those who most closely resemble the type of person you want to date”
You can see an approach to do that at:
(PHYSICAL ATTRACTION MATCHING page 24)
http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/irol/11/111999/presentations/IAC_Personals.pdf
That method never worked with MUCH MORE PRECISION than you could achieve searching by your own, just because it needs a common_sense_feature: ALMOST ALL the photographs taken with the same quality, distance, light, position, etc to successfully achieve MUCH MORE PRECISION than searching by your own.
Also, and more interesting than “the … person you want to date” is IF that “person you want to date” really WANTS to also date you!!!
Kindest Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com