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> fell in love with his future wife, a statistician, at first sight (he proposed to her three days after meeting her) Was that after sampling 1/e prospects? (
by matsemann 3y ago
> fell in love with his future wife, a statistician, at first sight (he proposed to her three days after meeting her)
Was that after sampling 1/e prospects?
(The "marriage problem" is applied statistics on when it's optimal to stop searching for something https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem )