andim/noisyopt

JOSS review: Tutorial edits

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nirum commented

These are minor, but a couple of comments on the tutorial:

  • The optimal parameters for the noisy quadratic are (0, 0), but given the restricted bounds, the optimal solution is (0, 0.5). Perhaps just add a note at the bottom of the tutorial emphasizing the fact that noisy opt finds the correct solution of (0, 0.5) ?
  • The tutorial only runs the minimizeCompass function, but it also works using minimizeSPSA--it might be nice to extend the tutorial to minimize the same function using this other method as well, and compare and contrast the two algorithms.
andim commented

Thanks for these ideas! They are addressed in 4193cf7 and 29cbe6d .