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Foil 6 Two Types of Global Mininum and their relation to Local Minima
From Physical Optimization and Physical Computation CPSP713 Case studies in Computational Science -- Spring Semester 1996. byGeoffrey C. Fox
Local minima in "physics" problems are closely correlated with true minimum
"Computer Science" grand challenges in optimization might look different
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