Hotter on Bumble, Part 2
A journey into the cold, cold heart of the feminist dating app
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Show Notes
If our potential matches on Bumble feel hotter than other apps, who's making that decision? What does this mean for us normals?
Reynald Adolphe caught our eye with his blog post: "Is Bumble's Algorithm Filtering Ugly People?" He is a software engineer and teaches other people how to be engineers, too. He tweets: @reynaldadolphe
Chris Volinsky was part of the winning team for the Netflix Prize to develop a better recommender system. He's assistant vice president of big data research at AT&T, and he tweets: @statpumpkin
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