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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by bad_user on Friday January 20, 2017 @03:41AM (#13442437)
> greedy optimization that gets stuck in local minima

I think you wanted to say local maxima, but yes I agree.

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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by TeMPOraL on Friday January 20, 2017 @05:50AM (#13442839)
It's customary to state the optimization problem such that you're minimizing a function - hence "local minima". If you want to maximize something, you simply negate the function.
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