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Graham McNicoll
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Co-founder GrowthBook, the most popular open source A/B testing platform. https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook
AWS announced at ReInvent that they are natively supporting Iceberg tables in S3 now, which is a pretty big deal.

aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ne...

Years ago, AWS was bragging that RedShift was the first warehouse to get to $1000/TB/month to operate. This S3 approach will now cost like $30!
New Amazon S3 Tables: Storage optimized for analytics workloads | Amazon Web Services
Amazon S3 Tables optimize tabular data storage (like transactions and sensor readings) in Apache Iceberg, enabling high-performance, low-cost queries using Athena, EMR, and Spark.
aws.amazon.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Reposted by Graham McNicoll
🚀 Bandit Speedrun Challenge!

Launched Bandits in GrowthBook last week, so we had to test: how fast can you go from zero to a live experiment? ⏱️

Our time: under 4 minutes. Think you can beat it? 🕹️ Test your speed 👉 https://bit.ly/4g2OZbH

Experimentation just got fun.
Bandits speedrun default settings first try, part 1 (3:58.96)
Watch a world-first speedrun: Setting up a multi-armed bandit test in GrowthBook | Final Time: 3:58.96See how quickly we can configure a complete bandit expe...
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November 26, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Reposted by Graham McNicoll
Multi-armed bandits are changing the way we experiment!

Whether you're testing 8 designs for a button or running a flash promotion, bandits balance exploration & exploitation for faster optimization.

Learn how we avoid biases & ensure a seamless user experience: blog.growthbook.io/introducing-...
Introducing Multi-Armed Bandits in GrowthBook
Bandits have been released in beta as part of GrowthBook 3.3 for Pro and Enterprise customers. See our documentation on getting started with bandits. Multi-armed bandits allow you to test many variat...
blog.growthbook.io
November 15, 2024 at 10:34 PM