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Yuxi (Hayden) Liu
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Yuxi (Hayden) Liu was a Machine Learning Software Engineer at Google. With a wealth of experience from his tenure as a machine learning scientist, he has applied his expertise across data-driven domains and applied his ML expertise in computational advertising, cybersecurity, and information retrieval. He is the author of a series of influential machine learning books and an education enthusiast. His debut book, also the first edition of Python Machine Learning by Example, ranked the #1 bestseller in Amazon and has been translated into many different languages.
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Playing Blackjack with Monte Carlo prediction

In this recipe, we will play Blackjack (also called 21) and evaluate a policy we think might work well. You will get more familiar with Monte Carlo prediction with the Blackjack example, and get ready to search for the optimal policy using Monte Carlo control in the upcoming recipes.

Blackjack is a popular card game where the goal is to have the sum of cards as close to 21 as possible without exceeding it. The J, K, and Q cards have a points value of 10, and cards from 2 to 10 have values from 2 to 10. The ace card can be either 1 or 11 points; when the latter value is chosen, it is called a usable ace. The player competes against a dealer. At the beginning, both parties are given two random cards, but only one of the dealer's cards is revealed to the player. The player can request additional cards (called hit) or stop receiving...

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Yuxi (Hayden) Liu

Yuxi (Hayden) Liu was a Machine Learning Software Engineer at Google. With a wealth of experience from his tenure as a machine learning scientist, he has applied his expertise across data-driven domains and applied his ML expertise in computational advertising, cybersecurity, and information retrieval. He is the author of a series of influential machine learning books and an education enthusiast. His debut book, also the first edition of Python Machine Learning by Example, ranked the #1 bestseller in Amazon and has been translated into many different languages.
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