If you're 20 and want to get married by 30, how many ppl should you date?
Math has an answer for you. 🧵
Math has an answer for you. 🧵
It's hard.
On one side, you need to spend some time learning the quality of your potential partners.
On the other, you nee time to snatch the best candidate.
Too little exploration, and you might marry a dud.
Too little exploitation, and you might let the Right One pass.
On one side, you need to spend some time learning the quality of your potential partners.
On the other, you nee time to snatch the best candidate.
Too little exploration, and you might marry a dud.
Too little exploitation, and you might let the Right One pass.
This is a type of logic problem called explore-exploit.
The exploration is the time you need to learn about the best solution, and the exploitation period is the time you spend finding the solution once you know what to look for.
The exploration is the time you need to learn about the best solution, and the exploitation period is the time you spend finding the solution once you know what to look for.
So if you're 20 and want to marry by 30, you need to date people until you're ~23 without committing to any one of them. After that, you should pick the first one that is better than all the previous ones.
If the setup changes, the optimal solution changes too.
Eg, if you can go back to any of your old dates to pick the best one, you should spend all 10 years dating (exploring) and then picking the best.
If you can try to date old partners who might have moved on, it's in btwn
Eg, if you can go back to any of your old dates to pick the best one, you should spend all 10 years dating (exploring) and then picking the best.
If you can try to date old partners who might have moved on, it's in btwn
Explore-exploit pbms (& others) are magnificently described in this book. Highly recommended
amazon.com/Algorithms-Liv…
amazon.com/Algorithms-Liv…
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
