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Re:p-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing by tomrod on Sunday July 22, 2018 @09:46AM (#17586706)
Yes, and that use case/failure mode should be remembered if the product being pushed overlaps that domain. Is that a large market outside of medical?
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Re:p-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing by stochastic_monk on Sunday July 22, 2018 @10:48AM (#17587018)
A lot of real world cases have imbalanced reward functions. Autonomous vehicles are another example. I don’t doubt regulation systems on spacecraft are similar.
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Re:p-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing by tomrod on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @07:30AM (#17600014)
Great examples.
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Re:p-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing by webmaven on Sunday July 22, 2018 @12:28PM (#17587527)
Consider Facebook's news feed experiment on user's emotions:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinke...

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