[SciPy-Dev] scipy.optimize.anneal - deprecation

Sturla Molden sturla.molden at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 20:56:09 EDT 2014


Sorry, ignore my previous post. It was too late in the evening for
conscious thought processes.

Sturls


Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
>> 
>>> One of the reasons leading to the deprecation was the sub-optimality of
>>> the implementation. As the situation was not fixed in several years,
>>> it's better to deprecate it than ship it.
>> 
>> Considering how candiate solutions are generated in SciPy's implementation,
>> it should come as no surprise that it fails.
> 
> Also, take a look at
> 
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/master/scipy/optimize/anneal.py#L82
> 
> :-D
> 
> hahaha, we should rather call this simulated meltdown! Instead of cooling
> down it heats up, until it's infinitely hot...
> 
> I suggest we start by fixing the disastrous typo.
> 
> 
> Sturla




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