So, I won't be teaching Matlab anymore. Yay! Why? While I enjoy programming and learning new things (one of the reasons I agreed to teach Matlab in the first place) my experience using Matlab was quite terrible. Can you enjoy teaching technology that you don't like? Rant follows :)

This is the final post (at least for the foreseeable future) on the statistical physics of dating apps [1]. In this post we will introduce two types of the users: some of them will be picky (giving likes predominantly to more attractive users), while some of them will be shy (giving likes predominantly to less attractive users). Who is more successful?

In this post I continue my exploration of the [1]. This time let us consider what happens if the users who were matched are replaced by a random sample from the population. Will only the least and most attractive ones remain unmatched?

Well, at least it was as productive on Physics of Risk blog. Though with less focus with quite a few assorted posts. In a few a bit longer series of posts we have taken a look at three papers I have found interesting. [1] inspired few posts on traffic. [2] inspired couple posts on biology. Exploration of [3] continues in series of posts on dating apps.

Fig. 1:The number of posts written in English and still available on this iteration of Physics of Risk. The wide bars represent total number of posts for each year since 2010, while the narrower bars represent a number of posts with 'Interactive models' tag.

Once again, at the time of writing this post, I still do not have an idea what we will have in store for 2023. Obviously, we will finish dating apps series. And then we will have a few more assorted posts?

References

• P. L. Krapivsky, S. Redner. Where should you park your car? The 1/2 rule. Journal of Statistical Mechanics 2020: 073404 (2020). arXiv:2003.10603 [physics.soc-ph]. doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/ab96b7.
• P. L. Krapivsky, S. Redner. Birds on a Wire. arXiv:2205.00995 [cond-mat.stat-mech].
• F. Olmeda. Towards a statistical physics of dating apps. arXiv:2107.14076 [physics.soc-ph].

In this post I continue my exploration of the [1]. In this post I will consider what happens if the users decide to dropout from the app as soon as they are matched with somebody.