I once saw a guy post “for every choice in your life, like careers, dating, etc, you should spend 37% of the time exploring at random before committing” which seems non optimal. Anyway, I think it’s best to read more than the half a blog post that he seemed to have read to draw his conclusions
Depends if you're looking for hard math or cogsci. I think the treatment in Algorithms to Live By (Christian & Griffiths) is the best and covers multiple papers;
also while it's a bit old at this point, for just 'hey how do actual people deal in this situation' I liked Seale & Rapoport (1997)
Has anyone applied optimal stopping criteria to when to stop writing optimal stopping papers? I guess you could analyze each researcher's output to verify how much past the optimum they keep publishing...
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Premature optimization is the root of all evil. ~Knuth
also while it's a bit old at this point, for just 'hey how do actual people deal in this situation' I liked Seale & Rapoport (1997)