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 2009

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 2009

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 2009

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

Three Types of Civilized Societies « Isegoria 2008

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

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

Blurring the Line 2007

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 2009

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

Blurring the Line 2007

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 2009

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

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