Comment by __MatrixMan__

After this:

> hundreds of the brightest minds of modern civilization have been hard at work not curing cancer. Instead, they have been refining techniques for getting you and me to click on banner ads

I was really hoping this would slowly develop into a statistical technique couched in terms of ad optimization but actually settling in on something you might call ATCG testing (e.g. the biostatistics methods that one would indeed use to cure cancer).