Science

For a bit of introduction, last year I enrolled in the Machine Learning course of the University College London, and it is now time for me to start my MSc project. The topic is analysis of social networks, so I have to get a large amount of data from a well-known website and analyse it.

To this end, I wrote a small script to use the site’s API to retrieve the data (after getting the necessary permission and everything), and store it in a SQLite database.

In the last few days, I get an increasing number of people coming up to me in the street and saying “But Stavros, how will I know if I have found the perfect man/woman/cyborg for me?”.

Worry not, gentle reader, for our science department is here to give you the answer to that question.

Imagine for a moment that, on a night out at the bar, you meet a girl/guy. You feel like you’ve never felt before the past week, and, whether it’s the alcohol thinking or not, you feel like you could really spend your life with them!

Not so fast, though.