Engagement

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I got engaged to a really wonderful girl.

There's this problem in mathematics called the Stable Marriage Problem , which involves finding an optimal bijection between two sets, where each element in a set has a ranked list of preferred members from the other set. It's used in matching medical school students to residency programs, among other things. There's a well-known algorithmic solution, called the Gale-Shapely algorithm , which is basically an iterative greedy algorithm. Anyway, I bring it up because it's been somewhat influential on my reasoning over the last two years. I had a big crush on this really smart girl I knew from co

Engagement

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