banditlover

Lately, while reading The Now Habit, I've become more aware of how much my life revolves around my job (logistics and optimization). I think about it, I read about it, my current interests revolve around it and I also do it. It makes me happy, but what about all the people around me, and the time I'm not spending socializing with them.

I also found it unacceptable. I'm definitely going to start planning for life, not for work.

Contextual bandits, on the other hand, allow you to put your mood as a context (features) and your strategy depends on the features. You still have that simple expectation maximization (instead of a brutally hard to optimize loss), yet much more flexibility.