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Re:How to Stay Sane in a World That Rewards Insanity by Arainach on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @01:57PM (#45983545)
A local maximum by definition cannot be a global minimum. A local maximum has to be higher than things around it, which are part of the global space.
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Re:How to Stay Sane in a World That Rewards Insanity by lazide on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @03:25PM (#45984639)
Fair point. However, the local maximum doesn’t have to be far from the global minimum.

If the global maximum is 10, minimum is 1, you could easily end up in a region with local maximum 2, minimum 1.

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