a dash of code, a pinch of science
To help students get a better feel for three of the most popular “multi-armed bandit” exploration/exploitation balancing strategies (Epsilon Greedy, Thompson Sampling, and Upper Confidence Bound), I combined my R package “contextual” with the versatile …
A paper I have been coauthoring and co-developing with Jules Kruijswijk, Petri Parvinen and Maurits Kaptein has just been accepted at the Journal of Statistical Software. The paper, “StreamingBandit: Experimenting with Bandit Policies” describes one of …
The Bubble, an algorithmic artwork I have been working on with the artist and photographer Johan Nieuwenhuize, was unveiled today during the opening of the academic year at the The Hague University of Applied Sciences. …
Above, a video visualizing two of our participants’ ECG responding to music in real-time. Yellow and green lines represent their ECG’s, red the level of synchrony between them. The audio is a live recording of …
Jules Kruijswijk (first author), Maurits Kaptein and Florian Böing-Messing and I have recently been working on a paper on the application of partial pooling (or shrinkage) models in (contextual) multi-armed bandit problems: The (contextual) multi-armed …
Slides from my recent presentation at the biweekly “Computational Personalisation” lab meeting – an outline of R Package Development, based on my experience in developing the R package “Contextual“. How to create an R package …
Recently, I have completed a Javascript (ES6, React, and Material Design) admin application for “StreamingBandit”, a Python server that helps setting up and running online streaming (contextual) bandit experiments. This management front-end makes it very easy …
With a team consisting of Ettore Majorana, Andrea Giansanti, Davide Iannuzzi and Maurits Kaptein, we are currently investigating how people perceive beauty, complexity, and symmetry in paintings. To get a better feel for the subject, …
“Psychology and Aging” just accepted our* latest paper, which offers new insights into how aging appears to change our emotional resilience towards monetary gains and losses for the better. The abstract: People of all ages …