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Re: messy electrostatics

On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:

A good suggestion. Perhaps only one random change after
every five force-driven changes. In that way one would not be
trapped by a local minimum.

If your routine can get trapped by a "local minimum", then why couldn't
mother (or father) nature? Hmm. Sounds like an argument against "local
minima" to me.

John
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