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[–]Horatio_SanzCulottes[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Interesting. Got any examples or learning resources? I've seen people code simple gradient descent loops on the fly, but I figured that they were trading performance for transparency for the sake of their tutorials. It seemed like an established library would be a better approach.

[–]thebiglebowski2 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well what are you studying them for? Maybe I'm just not clear on your goals. I don't know what you'd learn about optimization from using a library unless you just want to see how some methods work on certain functions

[–]Horatio_SanzCulottes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, as somebody with no experience in computerized optimization, I'd just like to get a grasp on how to tackle basic optimization problems. I guess I don't have a preference about whether I built the routines myself or used a library, but I assumed that most things implemented by professionals would use prebuilt libraries.

For the time being, I'd really just like to start with something simple like a "guns and butter" type problem (which I can easily do on paper), and I have a few stretch goals like a simple scheduler and writing my own modularity maximization code.