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Though he had to resort to manual calibration. I always find he has interesting problems for domain experts and would like to see him team up with one. Also with programmers for faster programs than self taught python.

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The guy has a masters in compsci and mechanical engineering, he has done both python and c++ afaik for his projects

I think the parent comment is specifically addressing why the black box (or stochastic?) optimizer he used not working.

In the video in question, he doesn't seem able to choose a good scoring function for the stochastic solver (even over multiple weeks), seemingly choosing a linear sum of distances (see 8:50) between simulation and reality. That's a mistake that not even an undergraduate should make. He needs some domain experts.

I did comp sci, I sucked at this stuff, and I have a masters.

Low level stuff? Os? Distributed systems? Multithreaded code? Now that’s more on my alley

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