<story><title>Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Attraction</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28853645?dopt=Abstract</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tunesmith</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s also so timing-dependent. My wife and I are not sure we would have been attracted to each other if we had met during quite a few other times in our past lives. There have to be some factors about a person that are about timing and emotional state, beyond simply just being single and available.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: &amp;quot;past lives&amp;quot; refers to the past of each of our lives, not reincarnation. :-)</text></comment>
<story><title>Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Attraction</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28853645?dopt=Abstract</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>make3</author><text>... They should run convnets on pictures on the subjects, would be much more accurate, I&amp;#x27;m sure. Speed dating is a first impressions thing. Physical attractiveness is huge, I&amp;#x27;m sure. I don&amp;#x27;t know if the convnet would have time to learn what attractiveness means, but that&amp;#x27;s more of a technical (albeit important) detail. Meta learning (including transfer learning) and more data could help a lot with this</text></comment>