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How would you choose those 'radical variations'?

I haven't found a good method yet. So far I've tried:

None of these seems to prevent the local minima phenomena.

The best approach I've found is once the top N stop changing; throw them all away (remembering the best 1) and start over with a completely new set of random picks.


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