I like descriptive names that fade. It provides a sort of local etymology. Maybe not good for business, but definitly provides some interesting discussions at the pub.
Yes, but not in the matrix state we are using to represent it. It would probaly need to be represented as a "one-hot" MDP encoding, takes away from some of the beauty of it.
Really cool. That's how this project got started. I was doing the exact thing you were doing (tile-based RL path finding). But it was soooo slow, so I started implementing it in tensors, and that's when I realized I could do a whole game of Snake.