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the art of fixing something by deliberately making it worse first.
means Annealing is the process of heating a metal, glass, or other material and then cooling it slowly to relieve internal stresses and make it tougher and less brittle.
from From Old English onǣlan, 'to set on fire, kindle,' built from on- plus ǣlan, 'to burn,' which traces back to āl, 'fire.' The word literally carries the heat in it: to anneal once meant simply to bake or kindle, and only later narrowed to the smith's and glassmaker's trick of warming a thing through and letting it cool at its own pace. The modern computing sense — 'simulated annealing,' jostling a system toward a better solution — is a borrowed metaphor straight from the forge.
- heat then chill
- Slow cooling rearranges atoms into calmer, softer order
- glass cheat
- Skip it and your glass shatters from inner stress
- named in code
- Simulated annealing solves problems by accepting bad moves early
- DNA trick
- PCR anneals primers to copy genes billions of times
- sword secret
- Smiths soften steel to work it, then harden it
glass annealing ovens — corning glass works uses annealing to remove internal stress in glass products, critical for preventing spontaneous breakage
simulated annealing algorithm — optimization technique inspired by metallurgical annealing, used by google and others since 1983 to solve complex computational problems