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As I kid I played a competitive text based strategy game, and I made my own crude simulation that randomly tried different strategies. I let the simulation run
by z3t4 2y ago
As I kid I played a competitive text based strategy game, and I made my own crude simulation that randomly tried different strategies. I let the simulation run for a few days with billions of iterations, and it came up with a very good gameplay strategy. I went from being ranked below 1000 to top 10 using that strategy.
I also wrote programs that simulated classic game shows like the 3 doors, where you either stay with one door or change door. After running the simulation one million time it ended up with 66% chance of winning if you changed door. The teacher of course didn't believe me as it was too hard a problem for a highscooler to solve, but many years later I got it confirmed by a math professor that prooved it.
Computers are so fast that you don't really need AI learning to iterate, just run a simulation randomly and you will eventually end up with something very good.
I think this might be a use case for quantum computers, so if you have a quantum computer I'm interested to work with you.
- kccqzy 2y agoIn general I also find middle school and high school math teachers woefully ignorant about Monte Carlo methods.