Not OT at all, IMO. As it happens, the linked book actually touches on MAB problems explicitly, albeit briefly. And as the book points out, you can formulate a

Not OT at all, IMO. As it happens, the linked book actually touches on MAB problems explicitly, albeit briefly. And as the book points out, you can formulate a MAB problem as specific form of Markov Decision Process, and MDP's are referenced extensively in the book. I find MAB's incredibly interesting, and for pretty much the same reason(s) I find the rest of this stuff interesting.