Argmax Valentine
A Valentine's card declares, in optimization notation, that the recipient is the argmax of the sender's utility function.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2021-01-01-argmax-valentine/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A (reading a card): "Aww! This is the sweetest card!" B: "I mean every symbol of it!"
[Card] "U = set of all things in my life; f = my utility function" / [inside a heart] "argmax_{x∈U} f(x) = you"