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. :) --g --------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Foundation || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors ---------------------------------------------------------------
