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Some optimization problems have very simple surfaces to optimize. The optimizer simply proceeds downhill to the unique minimizer and returns happily - all is good in the world. Sadly, more often the objective function has multiple local minimizers, you as the user provide poor starting values,... Platforms: Matlab

My first project to get a release, movgrab is a downloader for all those pesky sites that insist you use a big fat browser that runs flash in order to see their content. It's a command-line app written in straight C, and so doesn't require you to install perl. Nor ruby. Nor python. Nor guile,... Platforms: *nix