GitHub repository: yerazunis/bzerker
Primary language: C
Created: 2018-01-30T20:53:09Z
Description: Machine Learning by State Exploration - An implementation of Michie's BOXES algorithm, popularized by Martin Gardner in March 1962 and used by Fred Saberhagen in the story "Without A Thought" in 1963.  Very simply, BOXES creates a set of STATEs that map onto the visible attributes of the system being interacted with, and selects one of the ACTIONS permitted in that STATE according to a statistical analysis of how well things went the last time that STATE / ACTION pairing was selected.   The algorithm then is taught that, in this instance, that series of actions led to a certain desirability (or undesirability) of result, simply by increasing the probability of selecting a desirable ACTION and decreasing the probability of an undesirable ACTION.