hill-climbing

• “I think Taleb discounts the value of hill-climbing too much; there is a lot to be gained and learned from this, as long as you don't lose sight of the fact that your hill may disappear very quickly as the environment changes.”

  Inteview with Nassim Taleb, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “If you translate Raynor's strategy model into Beinhocker's evolutionary model, what it means is that the bottom layers of management are hill-climbing, trying to optimize current business lines in a relatively slowly-changing environment.”

  Inteview with Nassim Taleb, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “In an evolutionary environment, you want to do some local hill-climbing to find a local maximum, but you also need to do some exploring of other areas to see if there are higher peaks somewhere else.”

  Inteview with Nassim Taleb, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “It follows a sort of hill-climbing strategy — not in the landscape of truth, but that of power.”

  Three Types of Civilized Societies « Isegoria

• “For instance, when choosing the best k of n features for a classification problem, hill-climbing approaches are much less effective than branch-and-bound approaches 25.”

  A peer-reviewed article that supports ID ... or something else (part 2) - The Panda's Thumb

• “Just in this discussion alone, the concept of “hill-climbing” has been subtly conflated with potential hills in physics i.e., work being required to go up them.”

  A peer-reviewed article that supports ID ... or something else (part 2) - The Panda's Thumb

• “-It's a hill-climbing bike and the saddle is actually level on extreme grades”

  BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz!

• “In fact, it's about as intelligent as natural selection, capable of doing incremental hill-climbing optimization.”

  Blurring the Line

• “Human cognition can look farther ahead than natural selection (which doesn't look ahead at all), but it can't look very far, so humans explore design space largely by local hill-climbing, just like natural selection.”

  Blurring the Line

• “You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product.”

  The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

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