I had never heard of this: I thought they were talking about the Nelder-Mead simplex algorithm.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_algorithm" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_algorithm</a>
Does anyone have a good resource for learning more about a method? I'm looking for something that's relatively accessible yet still sufficiently technical (programmer technical, not mathematically robust technical)
This has been fascinating me recently. I've been trying to implement it as a general 'engine control' solver in the game Space Engineers. It seems to be a perfect tool for the task but actually turning it into working code seems to exceed my skills.
This article, unless I'm missing something, doesn't actually explain why the algorithm works so well. It just gives the back story that led to the journal paper explaining it.