Relish Dating
What do economic theories such as the Nash equilibrium and the optimal stopping problem have to do with finding love? The answer might help explain why single men and women are turning their backs on internet matchmaking services in favour of face-to-face dating events. That doesn’t mean online dating is dead but, as Louise O’Connor and husband Brett Couston have found, combining the power of computers to crunch data with old-school face-to-face meetings is helping with the medium’s one big problem: the gross inequality of attention. Cityswoon combines the power of computers to crunch data with old-school face-to-face meetings. Louie Douvis. The problem is neatly illustrated in the film A Beautiful Mind where the character of mathematician John Nash uses the “Nash equilibrium” theory to explain the optimal outcome for everyone is to target less attractive women in the group.