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Retirement, Stopping times and Bandits: The Gittins index
“A colleague of high repute asked an equally well-known colleague:— What would you say if you were told that the multi-armed bandit problem had been solved?— Sir, the multi-armed bandit problem is not of such a nature that it can be solved.” Peter Whittle In our busy daily life, while multi-tasking we are constantly faced…