A Sydney mathematician managed to crack a popular dating app’s formula and scored himself a girlfriend, using what he knew best.
Caleb, 30, who works at a prominent consulting firm, turned his mathematical mind to cracking the app’s code, and it didn’t take him long.
Caleb changed his profile accordingly, including a portrait photo of himself, an image with his back to the camera in a scenic location, and a standard group picture where he was right in the middle.Only a month later, he met the girl of his dreams. They’ve been together for six months now. The second method is how the company makes money. Users can view a wall of additional profiles on a “Discover” page, but in order to contact these potential matches, they need to pay.
He created five fake female profiles with his desired partner characteristics such as age and ethnicity. He used those profiles to look through 200 male profiles, methodically labelling each picture.
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