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brandnewlow on March 4, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: 42Floors Lays Off Half of Staff as It Cuts Brokera...

They've actually dropped a lot of those features after A/B testing showed they performed worse:

http://blog.42floors.com/behind-scenes-ab-split-testing/

reverius42 on March 4, 2015 [–]

Seems like they might have found a local maximum/global minimum.

frozenport on March 4, 2015 | [–]

Saddle point?

Dylan16807 on March 4, 2015 | | [–]

No, that's a minimum in one dimension and a maximum in another.

reverius42 is simply using a bit of hyperbole with "global minimum". obviously they could do worse if they tried, but they might be on a small hill.

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