Re:Four pitfalls of hill climbing
by astazangasta on Thursday March 03, 2016 @03:20PM
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Haha, if we are going to use terrible reward function analogies to measure success, why stop at A/B testing? Introduce your features as mutations to your product! Start them off with one or two customers. Those features that make your users quit in a huff will be eliminated. Those that make them recommend your app to a friend will propagate. Survival of the fittest feature!
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Re:Four pitfalls of hill climbing
by natosaichek on Thursday March 03, 2016 @06:29PM
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I love this terrible idea. I can totally imagine some terrified product manager turning up the mutation rate to try to find some good set of features while people leave because they don't want a mutating product.
Re:Four pitfalls of hill climbing
by techdragon on Friday March 04, 2016 @11:52PM
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We sometimes call this "pivoting your business" ;-)