That name game...

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

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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