LoveChild was mentioned in the news yesterday by the Wall Street Journal in a nice article about the Stanford Facebook App class. Rodney Rumford over at Facereviews.com has more details on the coverage.
Here’s the short excerpt:
“The applications included the bizarre, such as “Love Child,” where users “conceive” a virtual child with a friend and then play with or discipline it. “We have an algorithm in which if you lecture your child, its IQ goes down,” joked [anonymous team member].”
Unbeknownst to the team, the WSJ cited leaked details regarding the LoveChild algorithm!
(my bad.)
With our secret sauce smeared all over the face of the press, we went back to the chalkboard to figure out exactly how we could one-up our sophisticated “f(lecture) == iq–;” function call variable thing. About a hundred new features, two pieces of chalk, and some fingernails later, we stumbled upon the most ultimate user-generated affirmative-social-action/artificially-intelligent machine learning algorithm (we could think of). Observe the metaphorical explosion of our minds.
If Deep Purple didn’t illustrate how hard LoveChild will rock, then get ready: the most important gift you give this Christmas might just be the gift of Love(Child).
All you’ll have to do is let the algorithm make it happen.
