Showing posts with label fitness landscapes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fitness landscapes. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Apple, J.C. Penney* and fitness landscapes in everything

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James Kwak has an excellent piece on Ron Johnson's unfortunate run as CEO of J.C. Penney. According to today’s Wall Street Journal a...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Landscapes in everything

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SLIGHTLY UPDATED One of the issues I have with economics exceptionalism is the word 'everything,' as in "markets in everythin...
Friday, March 16, 2012

How our inability to distinguish between independence and contrarianism encourages Steve Landsburg to be, let's just say, a less effective pundit

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[I decided that the tone was getting a bit sharp in this debate so I'm dialing things down a bit. This entailed some very slight rewriti...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Hamsters, fitness landscapes and an excuse for a repost

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All Things Considered had an interesting little story today about the origin of the hamster . I was particularly intrigued by this part: Mor...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Repost -- Fitness Landscapes, Ozark Style

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[I'm working on a long post that uses fitness landscapes, so I thought I'd rerun some previous posts to get the conversation going.]...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Bob Dylan, the Monkees and the flooded landscape analogy

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Seth Godin's comments on Bob Dylan and the Monkees (which comes to us via Gelman via DeWitt via Tinkers via Evers via Chance) got me t...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Landscapes and Lab Rats

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In this post I discussed gradient searches and the two great curses of the gradient searcher, small local optima and long, circuitous paths...
Monday, April 26, 2010

Fitness Landscapes, Ozark Style

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[Update: part two is now up.] I grew up with a mountain in my backyard... literally. It wasn't that big (here in California we'd ca...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

While on the subject of evolution...

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I can't miss a chance to recommend Ian Stewart's "Through the Evolvoscope," a clever and elegant discussion of fitness lan...