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You test it on your favorite problems. It wins. You declare victory. You forgot something. The No-Free-Lunch theorem catches your breath. David Wolpert and William Macready proved it in 1997. They averaged every possible cost function. Every algorithm scored the same. Your neural network? Same average as random search. Your genetic algorithm? Same average as greedy hill-climbing. The advantage you found on your favorite problem hides a debt on problems you never tested. Performance is conserved. Like energy. Like momentum. You cannot cheat the landscape. You can only specialize. Stochastic gradient descent excels on smooth loss surfaces. It drowns in rugged terrain. Evolutionary algorithms thrive on discontinuity. They crawl on smooth gradients. The theorem is not pessimistic. It is honest. It says: know your domain. There is no universal key. 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