For the kinds of questions discussed in this post, which I think are easier than “Design Hessian-Free Optimization” but face basically the same problems, I think we are making reasonable progress. I’m overall happy with the progress but readily admit that it is much slower than I had hoped. I’ve certainly made updates (mostly about people, institutions, and getting things done, but naturally you should update differently).
Note that I don’t think “Design Hessian-Free Optimization” is amongst the harder cases, and these physics problems are a further step easier than that. I think that sufficient progress on these physics tasks would satisfy the spirit of my remark 2y ago.
I appreciate the reminder at the 2y mark. You are welcome to check back in 1y later and if things don’t look much better (at least on this kind of “easy” case), treat it as a further independent update.
I think not.
For the kinds of questions discussed in this post, which I think are easier than “Design Hessian-Free Optimization” but face basically the same problems, I think we are making reasonable progress. I’m overall happy with the progress but readily admit that it is much slower than I had hoped. I’ve certainly made updates (mostly about people, institutions, and getting things done, but naturally you should update differently).
Note that I don’t think “Design Hessian-Free Optimization” is amongst the harder cases, and these physics problems are a further step easier than that. I think that sufficient progress on these physics tasks would satisfy the spirit of my remark 2y ago.
I appreciate the reminder at the 2y mark. You are welcome to check back in 1y later and if things don’t look much better (at least on this kind of “easy” case), treat it as a further independent update.