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Re:20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time by zader on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @04:59AM (#4042004)
What do you think of Myna, in these respects? Does it suffer from the same disadvantages as other bandit optimization approaches?

http://mynaweb.com/docs/

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Re:20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time by btilly on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @12:39PM (#4043542)
Does it suffer from the same disadvantages as other bandit optimization approaches?

Yes.

That said, the people there are very smart and are doing something good. But I would be very cautious about time-dependent automatic optimization on a website that is undergoing rapid improvement at the same time.

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