On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Thomas Savitsky wrote:
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> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 8:05 PM, William Stein wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Thomas Savitsky wrote:
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > I've noticed that the function find_minimum_on_interval makes no attempt to
>> > find "the" mini
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 8:05 PM, William Stein wrote:
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> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Thomas Savitsky wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've noticed that the function find_minimum_on_interval makes no attempt to
> > find "the" minimum on the interval as the documentation implies, but rather
> > "
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Tim Lahey wrote:
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> On May 1, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Thomas Savitsky wrote:
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>> I looked into global optimizers, and scipy's anneal is not the
>> answer. It gives poor results quite often. A better choice would
>> be ASA, located at http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ing
On May 1, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Thomas Savitsky wrote:
> I looked into global optimizers, and scipy's anneal is not the
> answer. It gives poor results quite often. A better choice would
> be ASA, located at http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ingber/#ASA
> Unfortunately, there are functions which g
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Thomas Savitsky wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've noticed that the function find_minimum_on_interval makes no attempt to
> find "the" minimum on the interval as the documentation implies, but rather
> "a local" minimum. I imagine this may be a source of confusion for o
