How to Find Any Function’s Optimum

A clever way of optimizing over metrics, models & functions

Figure 1: Min-Max, “growth-increase-volume”, Tumisu, Pixabay

Using optimizers directly, whether minimizers or maximizers, is a subject that is rarely being discussed. These tools can be easily used to find, for example, local or global minima for any function. We’ll dive into a couple of examples the first one estimates the mode, and the second one finds the optimal…