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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

A/B testing is used widely in information technology companies to guide product development and improvements. For questions as disparate as website design and UI, prediction algorithms, or user flows within apps, live traffic tests help developers understand what works well for users and the business, and what doesn’t.

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Sentry’s David Cramer on bootstrapping a unicorn

CIO Business Intelligence

Sentry was started as an open source project by David Cramer in 2008 to provide monitoring services for application developers. We rely heavily on automated testing. A lot of the current approaches feel very experimental and are tough to see as maintainable, so there’s certainly still room for growth here. I thought, really?!

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Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly on Data

And if I switch tabs to view a paper from 2008, then a song from 2008 could start up. To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022.

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7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences

Occam's Razor

But there is more to the Security Choice landing page than just passing the all-important transparency test. The data is for 2008, but works like a charm in driving conversions. To accelerate your experimentation I've summarized a cluster of short lessons from experiences covered in this post.

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Deep Learning Illustrated: Building Natural Language Processing Models

Domino Data Lab

Note: A test set of 19,500 such analogies was developed by Tomas Mikolov and his colleagues in their 2013 word2vec paper. This test set is available at download.tensorflow.org/data/questions-words.txt.]. Relative to extrinsic evaluations, intrinsic tests are quick. Note that the final test word in Table 11.2—ma’am—is