20 lines of code that will beat A/B testing every time

I know how to make and sell software online, and I can share my tips with you. Email | Twitter | LinkedIn | Comics | All articles A/B testing is used far too often, for something that performs so badly. It is defective by design: Segment users into two groups. Show the A group the old, tried and true stuff. Show the B group the new whiz-bang design with the bigger buttons and slightly different co

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Multi-armed bandit. start with all 1/1. 90% time choose the best one(or the first if same), 10% time choose randomly. (randomized algo, may use a rolling ...), see also Epsilon-greedy strategy. Reddit talk: http://bit.ly/L3bwS4