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Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization

Errata for Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization

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Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 12
Figure 3-1

Figure 3-1 on page 12

"Expore Arm A"
should be
"Explore Arm A".

 Anonymous  May 19, 2016 
PDF Page 34
Last paragraph, 3rd sentence

Sentence reads:
"This naive exponential rescaling has the virtue of not behaving strangely if you someone used negative numbers..."
Should be either "you" or "someone"

Thanks for the good book on an interesting topic.
C.R. Myers

 C.R. Myers  Feb 11, 2013 
PDF Page 40
Last paragraph, 4th sentence

Sentence reads:
"...the blacksmith slowly decreases the temperature
at which he works with molten melt so that it becomes..."
Suggested wording:
"molten metal"

 C.R. Myers  Feb 11, 2013 
PDF Page 44
Figure 5-5

Graph is labeled "Performance of the Annealing Epsilon-Greedy Algorithm". Shouldn't this be "Performance of the Annealing Softmax Algorithm"?

 c  Feb 11, 2013 
PDF Page 45
Last paragraph, 2nd sentence.

Sentence reads:
"But the algorithm reaches its peak performance much faster than the worse of our settings and reaches a higher peaker."
Should be:
"...reaches a higher peak."

 C.R. Myers  Feb 11, 2013