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The art of ruining something slightly less than you could have.
means The process of adjusting something to make it as effective, efficient, or well-suited to a purpose as possible.
from From Latin 'optimus,' meaning 'best' — itself a superlative tangled up with the god Jupiter's old epithet 'Optimus Maximus,' best and greatest. The word 'optimize' and its noun form emerged in the 1800s–1900s as mathematicians and engineers needed a term for finding the best possible solution among many — turning a superlative into an entire profession.
- local vs global
- the best nearby answer can still be a bad one
- economics term
- Pareto optimal means no one improves without someone losing
- tech buzzword
- often means cutting costs dressed up as efficiency
- math origin
- calculus of variations formalized it in the 1600s-1700s