Building a Bayesian Learning Agent That Teaches Itself to Eat

You&rsquo;re stranded somewhere unfamiliar with twelve types of food scattered around. Some provide energy. Others are toxic. You don&rsquo;t know which is which, you&rsquo;re losing energy with every step, and nobody left a manual. The question is whether you can learn fast enough to survive. This is the exploration-exploitation tradeoff, and it&rsquo;s one of those problems that sounds like a…