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Anything related to the Bandit Ruby gem. Bandit is a multi-armed bandit optimization framework for Ruby-on-Rails.

Anything related to the Bandit Ruby gem. Bandit is a multi-armed bandit optimization framework for Ruby-on-Rails.

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What does connecting to own network daemon mean?

i'm currently doing the bandit wargames from overthewire.org (for those of you who don't know it's a website with different tasks that you get to do in order to improve your hacking skills). i did them before but i got stuck pretty early and i…
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What is the issue with binding to all interfaces and what are the alternatives?

I've recently seen bandit complaining about B104: Binding to all network interfaces can potentially open up a service to traffic on unintended interfaces, that may not be properly documented or secured. This plugin test looks for a string pattern…
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Multi-Armed Bandit Analysis for Price Optimization

Lately, I have read a blog post titled Bandits Know the Best Product Price" (http://pkghosh.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/bandits-know-the-best-product-price/), which outlines how to use multi-armed bandit analysis for price optimization. There is also…
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Multi-armed bandits thompson sampling for non-binary rewards

I use the following line to update my beta distribution in each trial and give arm recommendation (I use scipy.stats.beta) : self.prior = (1.0,1.0) def get_recommendation(self): sampled_theta = [] for i in range(self.arms): …
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Pybandit to allow B311: pseudo-random generators to be used in tests

I've used random.choice for tests. And Bandit is showing warnings. x = random.choice(lists) I know I could use # nosec comment to suppress the warning. But it would be inconvinent to do it in all lines x = random.choice(lists) # nosec I want to…
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Trying to pass Bandit level 27 on OvertheWire.org. Git clone not working

I've been working my way through bandit on OverTheWire, and I'm stuck on Level 27. The instructions for this level are as follows: "There is a git repository at ssh://bandit27-git@localhost/home/bandit27-git/repo. The password for the user…
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pyproject.toml : toml parser not available, reinstall with toml extra

I am configuring my pyproject.toml so that bandit excludes the test files but it gives me the error ERROR pyproject.toml : toml parser not available, reinstall with toml extra this is my pyproject.toml [tool.bandit] exclude_dirs = ["*/test/*"] tests…
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How to skip bandit on multi line queries

I am trying to skip multiple line queries using bandit in my python query. I have tried to use #nosec but still there is bandit issue showing Example: """#nosec""" ;Query = f"""Select username,id,email_id,address from User where username ='John'"""
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Vowpal Wabbit Contextual Bandit correct usage

I am currently using the Vowpal Wabbit package in order to simulate a Contextual Bandit. I had a couple of questions regarding the usage of the library: I have multiple contexts/categories where the actions are intersecting. For example, lets say I…
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Is there a dataset that contains two or more doctors prescribing two or more medicine doses in continuous value to patients and report their condition

I'm currently working on the problem of evaluating a contextual bandit (target) policy given a dataset that is generated by another policy (which is off-policy policy evaluation for contextual bandits) The problem I tackle has two or more continuous…
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Fail to start MGS_VeyronHost_x64_Bandit service

Got this error message when trying to start the MGS_VeyronHost_x64_Bandit service manually. Confirm the Parchment, Game Service, and MGS_VeyronProxy service are running. Environment info: Axiom GTP93, APP1 - 10.247.173.148
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Wordlist Generator in Bash

I am trying to create a wordlist consisting of the same password followed by a 4-digit numeric pin. The pin goes through every possible combination of 10,000 variations. The desired output should be like this: UoMYTrfrBFHyQXmg6gzctqAwOmw1IohZ 1111 …
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Why the bandit problem is also called a one-step/state MDP in Reinforcement learning?

What do we mean by 1 step/state MDP(Markov decision process) ?
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Is multiarm bandit a choice when there is very low reward

Is any version of multiarm bandit (EpsilonGreedy, Thompson Sampling, UCB) any good when there is very low reward/click rate for the high pull rate. I have 600 piece of content with approximately 3000 clicks (total across all content) per day for a…
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Uninitialized constant Bandit::Engine

I have a Rails 3.2, Ruby 1.9 app that I'm attempting to setup with the bandit gem. I've bundled installed the gem, run the bandit:install and modified the bandit.yml to (for development) values of round_robin and memory. However, all attempts to…
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