[EM] Rejecting fairness without a spec of reasoning

[Diana Galletly]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Craig Carey wrote:

> Simulated annealing is using random numbers to get around multiple
> minima.

Why on earth does one need to "get around" multiple minima (I assume
you are talking local minima here ...) ?  What is the problem with
multiple local minima?  And why can't one use analytical methods to
deal with such?

Diana.