Experiment 3 - BayesOpt

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• [ ] Black box Ackley function
• [ ] Synthetic Data
• [ ] Real data

# defining the function. At y=0 to get a 1D cut at the origin
def ackley_1d(x, y=0):

    # the formula is rather large
    out = (-20*np.exp(-0.2*np.sqrt(0.5*(x**2 + y**2))) 
           - np.exp(0.5*(np.cos(2*np.pi*x) + np.cos(2*np.pi*y)))
           + np.e + 20)

    # returning
    return out