That name game...
Greg DeKoenigsberg
gdk at redhat.com
Mon Feb 20 20:56:31 UTC 2006
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Ed Hill wrote:
> In any case, here are two names known for their association with
> optimization algorithms. And, they have *plenty* of connections to
> other topics so they are a "way out" from the current (rather boring)
> city-names rut:
>
> "Metropolis" : from the Metropolis or Metropolis-Hastings algos for
> simulated annealing, the traveling salesman problems, etc. which
> are also used to find optimal paths:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_algorithm
>
> "Amoeba" : a common name used to describe the way the Nelder-Mead
> optimization algorithm and/or how it works. Nelder-Mead is a
> very frequently cited paper. As with the Stentz algorithm (and
> with many other optimization methods), this algo is "feeling
> around looking for a better answer".
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelder-Mead_method
>
> Does anyone else here think that Fedora is constantly "trying things
> looking for better answers" or is that too much of a stretch? :-)
No, I'd say that's pretty much the definition of Fedora right there. :)
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