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AI Crash Course

You're reading from   AI Crash Course A fun and hands-on introduction to machine learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838645359
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hadelin de Ponteves Hadelin de Ponteves
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Welcome to the Robot World FREE CHAPTER 2. Discover Your AI Toolkit 3. Python Fundamentals – Learn How to Code in Python 4. AI Foundation Techniques 5. Your First AI Model – Beware the Bandits! 6. AI for Sales and Advertising – Sell like the Wolf of AI Street 7. Welcome to Q-Learning 8. AI for Logistics – Robots in a Warehouse 9. Going Pro with Artificial Brains – Deep Q-Learning 10. AI for Autonomous Vehicles – Build a Self-Driving Car 11. AI for Business – Minimize Costs with Deep Q-Learning 12. Deep Convolutional Q-Learning 13. AI for Games – Become the Master at Snake 14. Recap and Conclusion 15. Other Books You May Enjoy 16. Index

The Thompson Sampling model

You're going to build this model straight away. Right now, you'll build a simple implementation of this method, and later you will be shown the theory behind it. Let's get right into it!

As we defined previously, our problem is trying to find the best slot machine with the highest winning chance out of many. A not-so-optimal solution would be to play 100 rounds on each of our slot machines and see which one has the highest winning rate. A better solution is a method called Thompson Sampling.

I won't go too deeply into the theory behind it; we'll cover that later. For now, it is enough to say that Thompson Sampling uses a distribution function (distributions will be explained further in this chapter), called Beta, that takes two arguments. For simplicity's sake, let's say that the higher the first argument is, the better our slot machine is, and the higher the second argument is, the worse our slot machine...

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