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The problem is that it leads to local maxima and rarely something unique and something that takes the whole industry forward.

Competition is one local maxima, but personally I believe cooperative systems are the global maxima.

Tdd adds cruft and can steer you to local maxima aND away from the optimal solution.

Which opens up a whole new vista of opportunities and changes the local cost/benefit maxima sharply.

From the above description, it seems like you might be trapped at a local maxima.

Your argument is simply that analysts are trapped in a local maxima, optimizing for clicks as a proxy for consumer lifetime value.

Yes and you could almost say Myspace moved too fast, chased after local maxima (rapid A/B testing) and pursued vanity metrics (registered users).

It's very possible that top swimmers are at a local maxima.

S: Maxima actually uses a list-of-lists to represent a matrix.

In my opinion, EA kept optimizing for local maxima.

Sounds like it hit some sort of local maxima, so this system won't ever produce the original song, but something a percentage of the way toward it.

I completely agree that $1.5B is important business, yet it makes my point that appealing to a narrowcasted local maxima of VFX fans also simultaneously means perhaps 90% of the population will be uninterested.

Having a local technological maxima doesn't mean "constant progress".

This article is interesting because there seems to be an assumption that there is some ideal the web should strive towards ("free exchange of information"), when actually everyone is optimising for their local maxima.

The "Gig Economy" exists because of the complications of doing it any other way, and is the only perturbation likely to get us off whatever local maxima our ever-increasing bureaucratic approach to life has captured us on.

People who focus on local maxima with things like split-testing copy text changes, and Adwords tweaking, etc., rather than promotion strategies To me, those are both signs of "marketing anxiety" of one stripe or another.

For example in Computer Algebra: Maxima, Reduce and Axiom are all still maintained.

I think it's also important to note that Macsyma (or atleast Maxima) has a lot of cruft in the code.

Maxima and matplotlib are there as well.