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One more interesting coverage about this design is on quora: http://www.quora.com/Wikipedia/Is-having-Jimmy-Wales-picture-shown-across-the-top-of-every-page-he
by alexdong 16y ago
One more interesting coverage about this design is on quora:
http://www.quora.com/Wikipedia/Is-having-Jimmy-Wales-picture-shown-across-the-top-of-every-page-helping-or-hindering-Wikipedia-raise-money http://www.quora.com/Wikipedia/Is-having-Jimmy-Wales-picture...
The one with Jimmy on it has 10 times more "conversion" than others. Impressive!
I also like how the fundraising committee involves the community to design the banners. It feels like a genetic algorithm trained/evolved based on human clicks.
- patio11 16y agoAny sufficiently advanced A/B testing setup is indistinguishable from Strong AI -- it just has people embedded in the loop.
- ntoshev 16y agoStrong AI is overrated: evolution beats intelligent design every time.
- apl 16y agoIt doesn't. [EDIT: There isn't much more to say. The claim that (esp. natural) evolutionary processes strive for streamlined and optimal solutions is simply false, for various (even a priori) reasons.]
- ntoshev 16y agoYou should point out a counterexample. I guess it would reveal that your definition of optimality is different from "evolutionary fitness", and it shouldn't be. Note I didn't claim that "evolutionary processes strive for streamlined and optimal solutions". I have no idea how you derived that or why are all these people voting you up and me down (I'd appreciate an explanation btw). I just made a joke that I think contains a kernel of non-trivial truth, although I don't believe it's true if you take it literally as a claim for a universal fact. Edit: Perhaps I figured out part of the voting - people think I disagree with a popular HNer in an irrelevant way. Amusing.
- LaPingvino 16y agoJust for one thing: evolution is not going to help YOU in this life. Intelligently designed software does.