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AlexeyMK
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About AlexeyMK
former: - Head of Growth Eng @ MasterClass - engineering @ Opendoor - co-founder @ HackerParadise.org - started PennApps Hackathon - Product Engineering Consulting @ calldownmule.com [past clients include Dropbox, Tencent, Pebble, and Binti] - Engineering intern @ Facebook - started PennLabs.org - UPenn CIS '12
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That is mostly right, with the caveat that customer.io is trying to go upmarket too now. https://playbooks.hypergrowthpartners.com/p/picking-your-lif... I wrote this up about a yea…
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Comment #41210440
If you'd rather go through some of this live, we have a section on Stats for Growth Engineers in the Growth Engineering Course on Reforge (course.alexeymk.com). We talk through sta…
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Comment #38023727
There's a pretty good book dedicated to this exact question: https://unscalablebook.com/
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Comment #37508941
Yes, but it is _rough_. What actually hurts is "browse on mobile, buy on desktop" type behavior. Still worth doing, but you end up needing more black magic than you'd like (IP-base…
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Comment #37507159
Super helpful - looked it up, will aim to apply next time! Curious how the bonferroni correction applies in cases where the overlap is partial - IE, experiment A ran from Day 1 to …
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Comment #37506717
Thanks, that is a well reasoned argument! My take is for small n (say 5 experiments at once) with lots of subjects (>10k participants per branch) and a decent hashing algorithm, th…
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Comment #37506680
Thanks for factorial design! I'll update the post to the proper nomenclature. The frequentist/bayesian debate is not one I understand well enough to opine - do you have any reading…
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Comment #37493395
> Nooo! First, if one actually works, you’ve massively increased the “noise” for the other experiments I get that a bunch at some of my clients. It's a common misconception. Let's …
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Comment #37492253
[Author here] Heh - yes but don't, though... Yes: you could use bayesian priors and a custom model to give yourself more confidence from less data. But... Don't: for most businesse…
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Comment #35385141
Another option is monetizing via a niche job board for your readers. Pallet.com is good for that - will find companies, etc. Disclosure, tiny investor.
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Comment #34204361
Sure, but you need an "undeleted" view per table now - I haven't seen an ORM offer maintaining those views capability out of the box - any to look at?
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Comment #34204229
You can get around the "check in every transaction" problem with an ORM, but now you're (more) coupled to your ORM which you will occasionally inevitable need to circumvent for som…
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Comment #31213343
It's an article on a personal blog targeting a specific readership familiar with the term. More broadly, I think the level of granularity at which it makes sense to define terms (M…
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Comment #27078017
This is super well done & polished. Will try out for future blog posts. Thank you!