Galleys
medium.com/galleys · Group blog · on HN since 2015
Galleys is a Medium publication of long-form essays on topics like brainstorming, the MVP, optimal stopping, and Into Thin Air.
What HN saysHN commenters cite its optimal stopping apartment-hunting piece, compared with the 37% rule, and Krakauer's Into Thin Air postscript, which they say adds nuance.
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brchr · 2016-08-28
Even with tools to automate the search through listings and get you ahead of other buyers, one of the tricky parts of apartment hunting is its “optimal stopping” structure: you have to decide when to commit without knowing whether an even better apartment might be out there.
This is a famous math problem (the “secretary problem”) with the lovely solution that you should define a time interval over which to search and not commit to anything until you’ve spent 1/e of that time -- 37% -- noncommittally exploring your options.
https://medium.com/galleys/optimal-stopping-45c54da6d8d0#.ljw4cby46
grotorea · 2024-01-11
This other article says around Baltic Avenue was an African-American neighbourhood, not a literal ethnic Baltic neighbourhood. https://medium.com/galleys/behind-the-cardboard-streets-6f1d12c2b756
ghawk1ns · 2021-12-10
How does this contend with other optimal stopping problems? I just started reading 'Algorithms to Live By' and the very first chapter talks about the 37% rule [1], which feels similar. According to The Dating Problem [2] I should reject the first 37 candidates (when N=100 like in OP's example)
So do I reject the first 9 or 37 candidates?
source:
[1] https://medium.com/galleys/optimal-stopping-45c54da6d8d0
[2] https://medium.com/intriguing-algorithms/thirty-seven-percent-rule-b13…
ceocoder · 2021-01-16
Jon Krakauer has responded to Anatoli Boukreev here[0], it seems as like most things in life, there is more nuance this than just hero villain dichotomy.
[0] https://medium.com/galleys/a-postscript-to-into-thin-air-e238d464a256