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A variation of the Secretary Problem to guarantee high reliability

1 glathoud 2 9/4/2025, 7:53:42 AM

Hello,

In the Secretary Problem, one tries in a single pass to pick the best candidate of an unknown market. Overall, the approach works well, but can lead to a random result in some cases.

Here is an alternative take that proposes to pick a "pretty good" candidate with high reliability (e.g. 99%), also in a single pass:

https://glat.info/sos99/

Feedback welcome. Also, if you think there is a better place to publish this, suggestions are welcome.

Guillaume

Comments (2)

gus_massa · 21h ago

Clicky: https://glat.info/sos99/

glathoud · 17h ago

Thanks