From Discover Magazine: Can an Algorithm Give You Advice About Your Love Life?

Remember that water-filled Magic 8 ball you used to consult? That decision-making toy has gone high-tech, thanks to a new service called Hunch, created by one of Flickr’s co-founders. The site enters information about you into an algorithm developed by MIT computer scientists. It then formulates answers to personal questions, from what you should make for dinner to where you should take a vacation.

via Can an Algorithm Give You Advice About Your Love Life?, Discover Magazine, dated 16 June 2009

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