alt Hacker NewsWhat you described wasn't Hill Climbing at all tho. You have to be able to take the derivative of a function to do that. The derivative is what tells you how to "go uphill" (or down)
What you described wasn't Hill Climbing at all tho. You have to be able to take the derivative of a function to do that. The derivative is what tells you how to "go uphill" (or down)
You don't need a derivative to hill-climb. You only need an objective function, and a way to generate "moves" (similar, new solutions).