Definition of "optima" []

• A plural of optimum. (noun)

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• "Inaccessible optima which is roughly the idea of irreducible complexity are no more accessible to humans than they are to evolution."
• "Guts: My understanding is that RV&NS can reach local optima, but has trouble with global optima because they tend to get stuck in the former, and finding global optima is like "finding a needle in a haystack"."
• "My understanding is that RV&NS can reach local optima, but has trouble with global optima because they tend to get stuck in the former, and finding global optima is like "finding a needle in a haystack"."