Definition of "optimizer" []

• A person in a large business whose task is to maximize profits and make the business more efficient (noun)
• A program that uses linear programming to optimize a process (noun)
• A compiler or assembler that produces optimized code (noun)

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• "The google website optimizer is a multivariate testing tool that allows you to have 8 sections and 127 different variations within each section."
• "Now what Newmont does is they have a program, they call the optimizer, where they try to optimize all their process facilities."
• "An optimizer is a powerful tool that enables you to calculate portfolios that have the least volatility for a given expected return or equivalently, portfolios that have the highest expected return for a given level of volatility assuming the data that goes into their calculations are sufficient and they obey the important assumption of normality or near-normality."