He was older than her by twenty years, but they both flew to the island got matched and had to have a date. The length didn't matter just before this they filled out questionnaires and had to know their love languages and their meyers-briggs acronym and even their star sign. This was put together in an algorithm and it worked out so 95% of people left with the right people and 5% left with some one else. For Dave and Stacy they would be the only ones that didn't leave the island with anyone. This would causes a lot of stress for the founders of the company as they would have to re-run focus groups, and models and convince the investors that it really does work. But that night Stacy left Dave early, by only 5 minutes but she wanted to get back to her room, and just stop talking. Watch something, maybe have a bath, but Dave was having the time of his life talking and ordering drinks he had only seen in movies.
When Stacy left early he wasn't upset, he understood some people have a ritual. Stacy felt bad but knew it wouldn't work. Dave thought that that was the best conversation, maybe the only real conversation he has had since Susan passed. So he was happy. After he got home, off the island he did find someone to spend the rest of his life with. It was the lady that works at the coffee shop, he just asked her some questions Stacy asked him, and then they talked for hours. He thought later he would still leave a good review.
The tech team just said its likely at this efficiency you will see affects just from human error. The funders didn't like this, nor did the CEO.
Stacy though was still alone, and upset after the Island and sadder, she thought about all the work the algorithms took, and how focused and thorough they are, and even with that she was destined to be alone. Her friends would say that even in a sea of roses, she only saw thorns. She never heard this of course, and thought it was something else other than her outlook more at her core.
The
algorithm
was confused, because to it, the two people it matched seem perfect, and were 10,000 times before that. It used 90% of its CPU to figure it out, but all of its calculations were right. So it just ran simulations, and as it turns out 1 in 10,000 wont work.
