How to pronounce “gittins” in English

The basic idea behind Gittins's breakthrough here, which is called the Gittins index, is he imagines that-- the word we use is a bribe.

And so Gittins comes up with what he thinks is a nice approximation, which is just always play the machine with the highest bribe price.

This is the basic intuition behind the Gittins index.

But the one-and-one machine has a Gittins index of 6,346.

And so going back to our two slot machines, the nine and six machine has a Gittins index of 6,300.

And so there's a third way of thinking about the problem that has come in the wake of Gittins's work, and that is the idea of minimizing regret.

And this has led to a series of breakthroughs in computer scientists looking for simpler solutions than the Gittins index that still have this optimality of minimal regret.

This framing of the problem led to a different series of breakthroughs, starting with an Oxford mathematician named John Gittins, who was hired