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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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>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…
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