>just brute-forcing, trial-and-error.
I think as a whole, the community is executing a distributed epsilon-greedy montecarlo search, which is theoretically guaranteed to converge on an optimal policy eventually.
I think as a whole, the community is executing a distributed epsilon-greedy montecarlo search, which is theoretically guaranteed to converge on an optimal policy eventually.
Not a very useful guarantee, but that's theoretical guarantees for you.