Re: [tuning] Re: A plethora of pentatonics!

Paul,

Did you ever consider using a genetic algorithm?

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Erlich <PERLICH@ACADIAN-ASSET.COM>
To: <tuning@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 7:48 PM
Subject: [tuning] Re: A plethora of pentatonics!

> Based on my education
> as a physicist and my profession as a statistician/
> financial engineer, I can tell you that global
> optimization of functions with many local optima is
> a very icult problem to attack rigorously and is
> typically approached with Monte Carlo methods.
>

Kees,

Since I'm just as interested in the local minima as the global minimum,
Monte Carlo-ing the initial guesses, and then using a function-minimization
algorithm, seems like the best approach. But please fill me in on how
genetic algorithms may be suited to this sort of problem.

-Paul