The 2022 paper titled “Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models” [1] has been the source of much speculation — and much hysteria — about the future of AI [2], [3]. The paper’s central claim is that large language models (LLMs) display “emergent abilities” as they scale to larger and larger…

Today we’re going to address some of the problems with an ε-first exploration approach for multi-armed bandit problems. In the last post we saw how ε-first can perform very well on stationary problems where the true value Q∗​ of each bandit arm (slot machine in our example) never changes. But…

This post was originally published on www.daniel-scott-carter.com. In this post we’re going to discuss the age old problem of making decisions when there is uncertainty. To illustrate what I mean, we’re going to dive right into multi-armed bandits problems and what they are exactly. You can follow along and run…

Methodically improving the play experience and boosting KPIs — Developing games can often feel like searching around in the dark. Sometimes it’s difficult or even impossible to know what you should do next to improve the experience for your players. Or how to nudge those KPIs up a bit. The development team may have great ideas but they often…

Fall Guys is undoubtedly one of the great gaming success stories of 2020. With over 7 million copies sold on Steam alone, it took the top spot on Twitch on several occasions with a peak of 620,158 viewers and became the most downloaded PS Plus game of all time. It’s…

The battle pass — these days it seems like everyone wants one. DOTA 2 were the first to try it in 2013, but it really exploded onto the scene with the Fortnite battle pass: the ‘skins’ and V-bucks sent tweens into a frenzy all over the western hemisphere. The massive…