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Re:The Multi-Armed Bandit Problem and Its Solutions (2018) by jerf on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:08PM (#19089838)
As responses to criticisms of the current scientific method go, "but the current scientific method is the current scientific method!" isn't really that helpful. I know what is; I'm saying it should be something different.
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Re:The Multi-Armed Bandit Problem and Its Solutions (2018) by apo on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:59PM (#19092822)
You wrote: "The name of the game is to increase and decrease confidence in hypotheses by any legitimate statistical method, not to follow "the" method."

The definition I cited says nothing about the particulars - it just enumerates three essential elements.

What would you propose instead as general principles for a scientific method?

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Re:The Multi-Armed Bandit Problem and Its Solutions (2018) by jerf on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @03:35PM (#19099596)
See my other nice long response from before this post.
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