Review of the lab n.2 (Nim Game) - made by Ivan Magistro Contenta, s314356

[ivanmag22]

Hi Andrea! I want to give you my opinions and advices about your work (lab. 2 about Nim game). Sorry, but they are in a random order.

• you applied some interesting rules! For example there is one that consists in removing from a row a number of objects equal to the number of objects of another row within less elements than the row that we are interested in.
• metaStrategy() is tricky and interesting. It adapts to the different situations of the game. I advice to write it better because the first time it was hard to read for me, but then I understood how it works.
• I saw that you used a decreasing linear factor for mutation step: in this manner I don't think you're sure to find the best solution because you pass from exploration to exploitation and not viceversa. I advice you to use self-adaptation, especially the "one-out-of-five" rule that prof. Squillero presented in a lesson.

I appreciate your work. I hope that you can reply to my message, in order to understand better your approach and implementation. :)

[AndPan96]

Hi Ivan, thank you for your feedback! I really appreciate what you pointed out. The reason why metaStrategy() makes some computations was done on purpose, to make it faster, but I have to admit that I might have added some comments for that part. The purpose of using a self adapting coefficient is gold because I haven't focused on it so far. I think that in my future works I will use a maybe more versatile "one-out-of-2 ** number of dimensions" home made rule, so thank you for pointing it out!

Best regards, Andrea Panuccio