September 24

Hello! I don’t really have much to tell you about today.

Morning: Solving some Sudokus -> solve the Combinatorics & Probability exercises.

Afternoon: Chill for a bit -> Hinge for a bit (still no matches, but I sent out all the likes I had.) -> Start to solve the applied optimization exercises (which ended up taking up until now, since I didn’t find some minor mistake. And now it’s 1:20 in the morning). ->
Had the last driving lesson with my dad (he showed me how to drive an automatic, and explained some features of the car to me, like cruise-control &/ tempo-limiters) (Now, my driving time with my dad is over. End of an era. Kinda sad, but also good you know)
-> Helped my mom cook -> Volleyball practice (my shoulder actually worked!) ->

I drove home with my friends car. Now, I did one really stupid mistake, which nearly (exaggerated), but I was an idiot. I just shut off my brain, and drove into a round-about like an idiot. Really annoying. Especially given, that I (thinking about driving) am kinda scared (not really, more like respecting and shit) of driving. And then I go ahead and do this stupid thing… What an idiot.
So from now on: Focus on driving!

-> Back at home, I had like 20 minutes of YouTube left -> finished the last part of applied optimization exercise. (I did solve it quite good – I believe.) Also, it’s given to us as a group-project, but I solved it alone, because I’m not in a group as of yet.

-> brush teeth & sleep.

That’s all for today. I’ll see you again tomorrow. Take care & Bye-Bye!

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I’ve been theorizing about hinge.

Your like list is sorted through “last in, first out”. (If I liked an hour before, and you like now, the person sees your like first, and mine no longer, until she either matches you or “X”s you.) (So basically it’s a stack.)
Now why is that? Wouldn’t it be more sensible, to have it “first in first out”? (So a queue.)
But I guess not. What are hinges advantages of that? People who send out a lot of likes often are more likely to get a match in a short period of time. Which makes you want to send out a lot of likes.
Also, if you suddenly stop, and have some of your likes still “not reacted” to, you’ll get some matches, even if you haven’t been active in quite some time -> it draws you back in after not using it.
(If it were a queue: Not liking -> no Matches -> no reason to return.)

Can hinge “boost” your profile by showing either one or multiple “bad”-profiles before yours? (Hinge has most probably scores on how good a profile is. (Kinda like the algorithm that chooses if you are a “standout” or not.) So do they strategically “boost” your profile, if you pay for example for hinge+?)