Testing medicine against a placebo is essentially an A/B test. I wonder if we'll ever move to bandit algorithms in medical research?
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Apply NLP to papers to extract the relationships they found, then use miniKanren to find drugs with desired properties: https://www.uab.edu/mix/stories/a-high-speed-dr-house-for-medical-breakthroughs