It was designed to optimize complex systems with local minima, noisy/nonlinear/ multivariate loss functions, etc. It has been used to tune chess engines. And unlike many other algorithms, the papers describing it are actually comprehensible (albeit with great effort). Implementation: f...
Think of it as this: there is value in the bet that you, as a young healthy human being, will survive many years. And it turns out you can use that bet as a VERY lean retirement vehicle The myth that permanent life coverage is too expensive is pervasive because of high upfront costs...