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tomrod on July 22, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: p-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing

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?

stochastic_monk on July 22, 2018 | [–]

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.

tomrod on July 24, 2018 | | [–]

Great examples.

webmaven on July 22, 2018 | [–]

Consider Facebook's news feed experiment on user's emotions:

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

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