From: Max Williams <toastkid.williams@...>
Date: 2008-07-02T00:04:47+09:00
Subject: Re: how to - quickly make permutations?

Axel Etzold wrote:

> 
> an alternative approach is simulated annealing ... it makes use of 
> "jumping" in a
> space of parameters, where the jumps are initially quite big, but get 
> smaller as your solution gets better.
..
> There's an implementation for Ruby using GSL
> 
> http://rb-gsl.rubyforge.org/siman.html

Thanks axel - i was thinking that some sort of 'homing in' approach 
might be better but couldn't work out how to go about it.  I'll have a 
look at this.
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