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Hi all, I'm the creator of this website, I will open source the code soon. Any support is appreciated. If you have X/twitter, consider also liking this post: https://twitter.com/txstc55/status/1772163607809478948

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very entertaining.

if it's not a lot, can you have another UI that display more than one avatar at a time? say, 3x3 or 4x3 grid?

Thanks

It’s not hard but I don’t see the use of this, so probably not. And also although it doesn’t seem like it but the computation is quite intense for them, having multiple will lag the browser

no worry.

maybe i'll explain why, it's like the finding a mate for marriage problem. you dates enough ppl to have a taste of what you like, and then for the next one that comes along that is on par with the best you've seen, you take that.

i guess a 3x3 grid is not necessary, maybe when you click "another", push the old one up (or down) the stack but keep it around so I can always go back and pick the best one I liked so far after the sampling?

Anyway, don't sweat about it, thanks for creating this.

What you are looking for is called the secretary problem [0]. This states that in a search like yours, you can determine beforehand how often you are willing to press "another", and after 37% of attempts, you pick the first one that's better than the best one so far.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

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