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Re:Show HN: Price Optimization API by londons_explore on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @09:51PM (#15966627)
This sounds like the multi-armed bandit problem...

No need for fancy ML here - it's a thoroughly understood mathematical problem...

Unless of course you're using parameters of the user (browser, purchase history, interests, favourite pet, etc.)...?

Re:Show HN: Price Optimization API by grandtour001 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:55PM (#15983646)
You're right although multi-armed bandit problem doesn't address all the problems in the real world. E.x. adding different slot machines (prices) intelligently, or discounting past data without using magic parameters