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Heh I did a talk once 20y ago for a non-STEM audience titled “why life is (NP) hard” where I walked through a bunch of nice life-lesson optimization models without the math... bandit problems, phase transitions etc. Should dig up slides.
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I really loved the distinction made between maximizing probability of getting the best option and minimizing expected rank of the person you get (1/e for the first, ~57% for the second iirc).
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