been seeing lots of optimization lingo on the TL lately and it's been making me happy
there's little you could do to improve your life with as high a payoff ratio as learning a little of this math
every single decision in your life is a multidimensional optimization problem
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RT @MasterTimBlais
radically increase the dimensionality of success space so you can each look up to each other 15 different ways https://twitter.com/gwend…
https://twitter.com/MasterTimBlais/status/1425860736698535944
the domain of optimization, broadly, entails "finding the most efficient way to satisfy all your constraints"
there's room for improvement in domain modeling, dimensional analysis, optimization strategy, etc. many ways to get better at solving problems!
all you gotta do is try
the concepts in this arsenal come in useful in a variety of situations
feeling stuck in a bad place, but all your options are worse? that's a local maxima! and we have algos to get out of one
have too many options and don't know how to pick? time for some domain modeling!
choosing between options for a certain type of product but overwhelmed with all the information available to you? dimensional reduction!
have tons of steps in your task with lots of tangled dependencies? analyze for concurrency and then prioritize based on the priority gradient!
the formal study of such problems has yielded a treasure trove of insights, which are, tragically, not available to most
but if you're willing to learn a bit of math, you can unlock them
the tools we've built for ourselves are there for the taking
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RT @pee_zombie
simulated annealing tends to emerge as a natural solution in any domain which meets certain criteria
highly complex search space
NP-hard optimization problem
hysteresis
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https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1389706157292507137
while there's typically no need to get super rigorous & actually quantify everything, framing your problem using these concepts can really help you make sense of it
mathematics is a collection of magical artifacts we can wield with our minds to gain power
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RT @acidshill
if you’ve ever read ancient philosophy texts, like the bible or plato’s dialogues, one thing you will notice (or should notice) is that the way they present ideas is …
https://twitter.com/acidshill/status/1425863434374025216