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Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

Optimal Stopping

The Secretary Problem

Merrill Flood

Donald Shoup

Boris Berezovsky

Explore/Exploit

Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework (video)

I wanted to project myself forward to age eighty, and now I'm looking back on my life. I want to have minimised the number of regrets that I have.

Multi-armed Bandit

Herbert Robbins

Richard Bellman

Win-stay, lose-switch

Gittins Index

Discounting

Sorting

Caching

Scheduling

Bayes's Rule

The Copernican Principle

Overfitting

Training scars: anecdote about an officer disarming an attacker and then handing the gun back to them (possibly taken from https://www.amazon.com/Combat-Psychology-Physiology-Deadly-Conflict/dp/0964920549).

Artificial neural nets tend to overfit.

Relaxation

Randomness

Networking

Game Theory

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