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[geekchick]

Yay! Similar interest matching is back.

(As an unrelated aside, what's wrong with this catalog entry: "Wireless Extension Cable"? Uh...)

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[geekchick]

Woo! I'm number 50! I'm number 50! *grin* I'm actually quite surprised at how few of the people on my friends list made it into this "top 150"; other than the person at the top of the match list, I don't think anyone else was on my friends list already.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(grin) My average matching score per capita is considerably lower than yours... a 5.something makes my top-50 but is off-screen on your list. I'm not sure what that means....

In any case, I have eight current friends-list members that show up, about 25% of my list. You were the third-highest! (giggle)

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Yeah, only 2 or 3 people on my friends list made it into my top 50 as well.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I added "invader zim" and "reading" and suddenly you jumped to 28... and my average magic number doubled. (scratches head)

[geekchick]

I was going to point out that your best match had a magic number almost triple that of my best match. I suspect "invader zim" had the most to do with the increased match, as it's not as common a match as "reading" (which I think is vaguely reassuring on some level). Now I wonder if my "childfree" is cancelling out the "childrearing". ;)

Hm, you're now number 82. Spooky. =)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Deus ex machina's little joke?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Now I wonder if my "childfree" is cancelling out the "childrearing".

Or, I wonder if the algorithm does syllable or partial-word matching (to accommodate different suffixes or plurals on the same root, say) in which case we'd get positive, instead of negative points there.

(maybe I should have used "breeding" instead... now there's the ticket (ducking))

[geekchick]

n which case we'd get positive, instead of negative points there.

I wouldn't be entirely surprised (I suppose I could look at the code if I was really curious), but wouldn't that be wonderfully ironic in this particular example? *laugh*