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Re:Run fewer, better A/B tests by xivzgrev on Saturday June 26, 2021 @12:57PM (#27643549)
Yea me too.

My biggest question is where do you get user data to run the simulation? Take the simple push example - if to date you’ve only sent pushes on day 1, and you want to explore day 2,3,4,5 etc…where does that user response data come from? It seems like you need to get the data, then you can simulate various permutations of a policy. But then why not just run multi arm bandit?

Re:Run fewer, better A/B tests by ec109685 on Saturday June 26, 2021 @07:19PM (#27646921)
The author discusses that in the post, you need to have allowed all possibilities to run at some probability.