The stable marriage problem - by Ajeya Cotra - Good Bones
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If you happen to be a student at Berkeley, I highly recommend CS 70 (Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory), especially when it’s taught by Anant Sahai, who’s a delightfully classic hardass immigrant professor who will probably teach you a lot about math and at least something about life.1 This class introduces several of my favorite pieces of math ever: RSA, Shamir’s secret sharing, error correcting codes. But the most profoundly affecting was easily the Stable Marriage Problem. The Secretary Problem can only dream of having this much influence on my dating life. I gather the woke…
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