Vaniver comments on Probability, knowledge, and meta-probability - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 21 September 2013 09:00:32AM 2 points [-]

If you enjoy this sort of thing, you might like to work out what the exact optimal algorithm is.

I guess this is a joke. From wikipedia: "Originally considered by Allied scientists in World War II, it proved so intractable that, according to Peter Whittle, it was proposed the problem be dropped over Germany so that German scientists could also waste their time on it.[10]" (note that your wikipedia-link is broken)

Comment author: Vaniver 21 September 2013 04:30:46PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, but that was 60 years ago, and the single-armed bandit problem is easier than the multi-armed bandit.