Posts tagged ‘gradient descent’

Liar’s Poker: a tricky problem, part 3

I’ve been working off and on to find the optimal strategy for the final round of a game of liar’s poker. I’ve gotten a bit farther on it, and it now looks solveable. I’ve now solved the 12-card deck version (i.e. if the deck only contains aces, kings, and queens), and I suspect I’ve got an algorithm that will solve the whole problem in a reasonable amount of time.

A few more lemmata →