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Feynman's Restaurant Problem
- 082349872349872 4y agolet's see: assuming frictionless spherical dating partners, if we're optimising over the period 16-86 this formula yields M* of 11, suggesting that one should have started dating the person one will marry in one's late 20s. That smoke check passes... (M* could also be used to determine the cutover point at which one should stop exploring critical mass geometries and start engineering a bomb around the best geometry discovered so far, but surely nothing of that sort ever happened!)
- alexmolas 4y agoNot that Feynman was involved in the Manhattan Project or anything like that. Also, for the dating problem you propose I think it's better to frame it as the "secretary problem", which similar but slightly different.