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I dated a guy once who, after a couple of weeks, asked me to marry him--citing this problem as his reasoning. I said no. Butt he's all I ever think about when
by rhallie11 9y ago
I dated a guy once who, after a couple of weeks, asked me to marry him--citing this problem as his reasoning.
I said no.
Butt he's all I ever think about whenever I hear it mentioned, so.
- khedoros1 9y agoDid you ask his value for "n", and how he chose that value?
- rhallie11 9y agoIt was 2, and I honestly have no idea why
- Bromskloss 9y agoWhat? That makes it even weirder. That means you weren't even being chosen because you were considered to outperform anyone else. Either you were the first candidate, and no comparison could be made, or your were the last candidate, and had to be chosen anyway!
- rhallie11 9y agoI was his second girlfriend, and he'd just gotten out of a multi-year relationship. We met while interning in SV. We broke up soon after I went back to school, and I think he just ended up getting back with his ex, so...
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- twic 9y agoAh, so once again, we have a situation where the documentation describes the use of an elegant algorithm, but the actual implementation is a random pile of hacks and heuristics slapped together by someone who seems not to have really understood what they were doing.
- aidenn0 9y agoDefinitely a good call; I don't think I'd want to marry someone who thought they could evaluate my value as a future partner in a couple of weeks.
- thefalcon 9y agoWas his name Michael? http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog/?p=1392 http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog/?p=1392
- carsondm 9y agoThe questionable self help book 'Algorithms to Live By' could have prompted this. It's recommend in the first chapter