R help - Dec 2011 - Fortune? -- was Re: optim with simulated annealing SANN ...

Folks:

I thought John Nash's comment below was profound and a possible
Fortunes candidate:
(Aside: I believe it applies to a great deal of what is discussed on
this list, not just stochastic optimization.)

Cheers,
Bert

... (in the context of stochastic optimization)
>...  As with many tools in this domain, for effective use they
> require more knowledge than many of their users possess, and can be
dangerous because they
> seem to "work".
>
> JN
>
-- 

Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics

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On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Bert Gunter wrote:
> Folks:
>
> I thought John Nash's comment below was profound and a possible
> Fortunes candidate:
> (Aside: I believe it applies to a great deal of what is discussed on
> this list, not just stochastic optimization.)
Thanks for the pointer, very true indeed - and now also in the devel 
version of "fortunes" on R-Forge

Best,
Z
> Cheers,
> Bert
>
> ... (in the context of stochastic optimization)
>> ...  As with many tools in this domain, for effective use they
>> require more knowledge than many of their users possess, and can be
dangerous because they
>> seem to "work".
>>
>> JN
>>
> -- 
>
> Bert Gunter
> Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
>
> Internal Contact Info:
> Phone: 467-7374
> Website:
>
http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm
>
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