loverboy69

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   by loverboy69 6mo ago

   You're right, and you're wrong. IAC owned both Match and HatchLabs (which developed Tinder in 2012). They were later merged into one entity, and even later spun off from IAC altogether. They were "part of the same company&quo
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   by loverboy69 6mo ago

   As a former employee, we did do NLP on messages but exclusively to find and suppress spammy/scammy/offensive messages. That system is dead now tho.
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   by loverboy69 6mo ago

   There was an actual effort at data science going on here before the marketing team took it over in the latter years. See the published book Dataclysm by one of the founders for more of the good stuff.