20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)
Here's what everyone is missing.  Don't use bandits to A/B test UI elements, use them to optimize your content / mobile game levels.<p>My app, 7 Second Meditation, is solid 5 stars, 100+ reviews because I use bandits to optimize my content.<p>By having the system automatically separate the wheat from the chaff, I am free to just spew out content regardless of its quality.  This allows me to let go of perfectionism and just create.<p>There is an interesting study featured in "Thinking Fast and Slow" where they had two groups in a pottery class.  The first group would have the entirety of their grade based on the creativity of a single piece they submit.  The second group was graded on only the total number of pounds of clay they threw.<p>The second group crushed the first group in terms of creativity.