Metadata
- Authors: Brian Christian, Griffiths
- Full Title:: Algorithms to Live By
- Category:: 📚Books
- Finished date:: 2023-02-02
Highlights
Optimal stopping is the science of serial monogamy. (Location 86)
behavioral economics (Location 138)
New highlights added 2025-05-04
When have you met enough people to know who your best match is? And what if acquiring the data costs you that very match? It seems the ultimate Catch-22 of the heart. As we have seen, this Catch-22, this angsty freshman cri de coeur, is what mathematicians call an “optimal stopping” problem, and it may actually have an answer: 37%. (Location 189)