[SciPy-User] Minimizing Monte Carlo simulation function

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Fri Sep 26 04:18:02 EDT 2014


On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24/09/14 23:39, Andrea Gavana wrote:
>
>> I tend to agree with Matt. Either SA is a weak algorithm or the SciPy
>> implementation of SA is a weak one. The result doesn't change, it's
>> still a weak algorithm.
>
> It is still useful to have for reference because it is so abundant in
> the literature. Weakness is a documentation issue.

If you want it around as a reference, please take the code out and
maintain it in its own project. It's not something that any scipy
developer wants to maintain, document, or answer questions about. The
only answer we can give to people is "Don't use it."

-- 
Robert Kern



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