optimality

Organisms and cultures constantly modulate both telic orientation and process relations for optimality in the evolutionary sense — optimality is achieved, if at all, in the aggregate and never in the instance, but cannot be achieved at all programmatically, or algorithmically, whether the algorithm or program be defined by ends or means.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Paternalistic versus Therapeutic? 2010

Those who argue that Microsoft has created many millionaires ignore the (perhaps more waelth) that could have been created in a more open and competitive market - though market optimality is possibly unpredictable.

The European Challenge to Successful Companies - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

The predictions of standard economic theory – the expectation that freely operating markets will produce a certain kind of optimality – only hold good as long as the markets are not marred by serious imperfections.

Limitations of markets 2007

Yes, I got your point, but I see that we disagree about "optimality" of a function.

Visual C++ Language Forum 2010

He defines "optimality" based on an imaginary construct where there is 100% certainty.

Libertarian Blog Place 2009

Having read the third article, I have to concede the point: biologists do see useful parallels between biological and engineering networks (e.g. their robustness and optimality).

De Facto Intelligent Design in Biology 2010

Having read the third article, I have to concede the point: biologists do see useful parallels between biological and engineering networks (e.g. their robustness and optimality).

De Facto Intelligent Design in Biology 2010

The question is not optimality, but enough to meet the legitimate pedagogical needs of teachers, and camcorders meet those needs.

Archive 2009-05-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

The optimality of the proposed package needs to be weighed on both these axes.

Discourse.net: University of Miami Law School Announces Foreclosure Defense Fellowships 2009

In spite of the protestations of advocates (i.e. probably the beneficiaries thereof) it will to some degree, from minor to dramatic, under-perform with respect to optimality.

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