Meet stochastic

Earliest known poster for Meet stochastic.

In film and television, a meet stochastic is a scene in which the two people who will form a future romantic couple whose first meeting has the property of being well described by a random probability distribution.

Description

This type of scene is a staple of romantic number theory comedies, though it can also occur in topology and even graph theory.

Frequently, the meet stochastic leads to a humorous clash of conjectures, embarrassing half-finished papers, or comical incorrect equations that further prove the plot.

In the News

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  It Ripened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball horticulture about a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) who tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish gardener (Clark Gable).

Fiction cross-reference

• Bayeswatch
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• It Ripened One Night
• Stochastic Paladin

External links

• Meet cute @ Wikipedia - In film and television, a meet cute is a scene in which the two people who will form a future romantic couple meet for the first time, typically under unusual, humorous, or cute circumstances.
• Stochastic @ Wikipedia - The property of being well described by a random probability distribution.

Social media

• Post @ Twitter (24 April 2023) - syntax, rewrite
• Post @ Twitter (29 October 2022)