[HN Gopher] Secretary Problem
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       Secretary Problem
        
       Author : sherilm
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-04-12 19:01 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | bell-cot wrote:
       | > The applicants, if all seen together, can be ranked from best
       | to worst unambiguously.
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       | Sounds to me like the actual objective is to hire the hottest-
       | looking secretary.
        
       | avidiax wrote:
       | This problem is the underpinning of lots of real-life problems.
       | Basically any search where revisiting a previously evaluated
       | choice is expensive.
        
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