Scientific American reported on this in 2011 [1]. But the application seemed much more limited than how it's being described in this Crunchbase piece. Has the technology advanced that much or is the latest reporting off?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/World_Changing_Ideas_December_2011.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/World_Changing_Ideas_Dece...</a>
> In a complex system with many layers of subsystems, having [Optimization Framework]s all the way down the stack would make the whole system run more efficiently.<p>Pretty extraordinary claim. Does the law of diminishing returns somehow not apply here?