In principle A/B testing is really simple. To do it you need to define two separate user experiences, and then randomly allocate users between them:

def final_experience(user):
    if random.choice([0,1]) == 0:
        return user_experience_A(user)
    else:
        return user_experience_B(user)

So far this seems pretty simple. But then …

Today I spoke about AI ethics at 50p 2018. Here are the slides from my talk.

The general topic was multiple ethical principles, and how it's mathematically impossible to satisfy all of them.

Some time back, I was involved in a discussion with folks at an India-based software company. An important question was asked - why isn't this company as productive (defined as revenue/employee) as it's western competitors, and what can be done to change this situation? In this discussion, I put forward …