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Live at the Witch Trials

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Live at the Witch Trials is a personal blog at liveatthewitchtrials.blogspot.com about data and culture. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-04, and you can follow it by feed.

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17mentions?
3HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2011

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  1. >This was a fairly large change that we, understandably, only wanted to deploy to a small subset of users. This was facilitated by Bengineer Kamen's GAE/Bingo split-testing framework for App Engine. I think this method of A/B testing has some faults. I blogged about it A/B testing. Is Khan doing it wrong? http://liveatthewitchtrials.blogspot.com/2011/09/ab-testing-... and Allen Downey ran some simulations at Repeate…

    Comment linking /2011/09/ab-testing-is-khan-doing-it-wrong.html

    on “How Khan Academy is using machine learning to assess student mastery”
  2. Submitted How to hide Ryanair as a story · 135 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted If an LLM is too expensive it won't be next year as a story · 3 points

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  4. Submitted How much would a driverless taxi cost? as a story · 3 points

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  5. Submitted A Kaggle for Materials? as a story · 2 points

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  6. Submitted Are Stephen King films better than the books? as a story · 2 points

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  7. Submitted EULA Be Sorry as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted Give Yourself Synaesthesia with Greasemonkey as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted A/B testing. Is Khan doing it wrong? as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted Why the 2026 World Cup Ball Has Deeper Seams as a story · 1 points

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  11. Submitted The Birthday Problem as a story · 1 points

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  12. Submitted Awful Security Questions as a story · 1 points

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  13. Submitted The Irish Religion of Copying that Saved Civilisation as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted The number of people working in agriculture and industry has peaked as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Should Science Bloggers Have a Session? as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Lithium in the water supply as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted The Population Surge is Stopping as a story · 1 points

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