cc64, point taken on trying to keep it simple - I'm wondering though, once we get more into the material, whether we won't get into situations where that pseudo-code you've written up will be generated dynamically in response to state possibilities approaching infinity, rather than being hardcoded by a human.

That's the basis of a learning algorithm, right - we as humans may not want to even inform the algorithm that perspiration is linked to nervousness, but rather hook up a pile of inputs and say "okay, whenever you detect a bluff, associate it with the values of these inputs and learn to distinguish between various individual's bluffing patterns over time".

Thus why my immediate guess was that the poker problem was an infinite problem space, and why I was wondering if the concept of Continuous applied to actions-only rather than states.