{"id":147,"date":"2026-01-22T01:15:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omoo.nl\/?p=147"},"modified":"2026-01-22T01:15:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:15:57","slug":"the-science-of-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/the-science-of-dating\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Dating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now for a somewhat vulgar continuation we will discuss the science of dating i.e. Bayes will be used to model attraction between souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recall that P(a | b) = (P(b | a) * P(a)) \/ P(b).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recall that P(a) is the initual probability with regards to the prior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus P(a | b) is the attraction a hypothetical person feels towards her love given that event B has occured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cont. P(a) is the initial attraction etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cont. P(b | a) is the updated attraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And P(b) = P(b | a)*P(a) + P(b | !a)*P(!a) which models the probability of event B occuring regardless of event a viz. the person being attracted to her with a degree of belief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But here is the conondrum that it is not possible to know whether person n+1 makes her decisions in time or based on logic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now for a somewhat vulgar continuation we will discuss the science of dating i.e. Bayes will be used to model attraction between souls. Recall that P(a | b) = (P(b | a) * P(a)) \/ P(b). Recall that P(a) is the initual probability with regards to the prior. Thus P(a | b) is the attraction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[28,45,50],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-bayes","tag-love","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}