They are effective or ineffective ways of accomplishing certain goal
I’ll generalize it even further: there are more and less optimal ways of accomplishing a certain goal and what is “optimal” depends on what are you optimizing for and the weights you assign to different values that you trade off against each other.
I’ll generalize it even further: there are more and less optimal ways of accomplishing a certain goal and what is “optimal” depends on what are you optimizing for and the weights you assign to different values that you trade off against each other.