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Re:Enough Machine Learning to Make Hacker News Readable Agai... by mendicantB on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @08:23PM (#7713342)
This is not a good generalization. I've usually only seen this issue with optimization problems when:

1) You haven't played with parameters 2) Implementation is not correct (usually the case with genetic algos, since it requires a reasonable amount of domain expertise vs say GD)

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Re:Enough Machine Learning to Make Hacker News Readable Agai... by mendicantB on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @08:53PM (#7713430)
Copped out when called out. Deleted comment said GAs were bad search algos and tend to get stuck at local minima.
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