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ah but descent is such a luxury! Zen comes only from knowing when it is time to ascend the gradient, there to find new descending vistas that made the old valle
by vegabook 12y ago
ah but descent is such a luxury! Zen comes only from knowing when it is time to ascend the gradient, there to find new descending vistas that made the old valley look like a mountain!
would that all problems were so conveniently convex.
- cgs1019 12y agodownvoter(s) -- this is a subtle, poignant, and (IMHO) poetically written joke about the prevalence of non-convexity in real-world optimization problems.
- noelwelsh 12y agoAs a wise woman once said to me, "You can approximately solve the exact problem, or exactly solve an approximation of the problem." Truly these were wise words, and wiser yet are those who can choose correctly between these two (meta-)paths.