On Jun 16, 11:44 am, "Prof. Gregory V. Bard" wrote:
> I'm working on a very fast implementation of the
> Nelder-Mead algorithm for optimizing functions.
> This is a particularly good algorithm if the
> function is noisy, or is not smooth.
>
> Is it in SAGE already?
R (which is included in Sage)
On Jun 16, 5:44 pm, "Prof. Gregory V. Bard" wrote:
> I'm working on a very fast implementation of the
> Nelder-Mead algorithm for optimizing functions.
> This is a particularly good algorithm if the
> function is noisy, or is not smooth.
>
> Is it in SAGE already? If not, I'd be happy to
> releas
There is a simplex method implemented in scipy.optimize, I think its
the default for the function fmin (see
http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/optimize.html
for instance).
On the other hand, the scipy functions are very float-oriented, so if
your implementation could handle more
