The Nelder-Mead Method of Minimization Explained

The Nelder-Mead Method of Minimization Explained
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For some reason, I've had this obsession with the Nelder-Mead for quite some time. If you haven't heard of it, it's a method for finding the local minimum of a function of more than one variable. I find I keep implementing it in different languages (first, in C then in Python). Now I created a Google Colab notebook that explains the method.

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