Overvloed & Fabel B.V., groothandel in feestartikelen. Every week the network sees the books and decides, for each open supplier invoice: pay now, or wait. It has been told the rules and the goal — the end-of-year net position — and nothing else. Three human rules of thumb are already on the board. Nothing here is a recording: the network below is untrained, and starts learning when you press the button.
the network — 2,929 numbers, starting from nothing
Discount Hunter — take the 2% discount, otherwise pay on the due date
Stretcher — pay only when due (€93 below the Hunter, so the two lines sit on top of each other)
Prompt Payer — pay everything the moment it arrives
paid early, took the 2% discount paid on time paid late held past due bottom row: credit line drawn · gold: btw quarters
A 2,929-parameter network, reinforcement learning from the rules alone. Built by Karim & Claude. The full trained version, and the story of how it got there, is at the Cash-Flow Game.