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Date: 2011-12-16T21:44:37Z
From: Bert Gunter
Subject: Fortune? -- was Re: optim with simulated annealing SANN ...
Folks:
I thought John Nash's comment below was profound and a possible
Fortunes candidate:
(Aside: I believe it applies to a great deal of what is discussed on
this list, not just stochastic optimization.)
Cheers,
Bert
... (in the context of stochastic optimization)
>... As with many tools in this domain, for effective use they
> require more knowledge than many of their users possess, and can be dangerous because they
> seem to "work".
>
> JN
>
--
Bert Gunter
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