You are right. I am aware of the AI term. The intended use of HC in the article was not as an AI optimization/search algo, but as an overloaded use of this term to search for a truly globally optimized model across the widest data distribution possible. I tweaked my last paragraph to reflect this.
hill climbing means something completely different and unrelated, and is a critical and basic concept in machine learning
You are right. I am aware of the AI term. The intended use of HC in the article was not as an AI optimization/search algo, but as an overloaded use of this term to search for a truly globally optimized model across the widest data distribution possible. I tweaked my last paragraph to reflect this.
Thank you for the feedback!
Karim