Comment by Izikiel43

13 hours ago

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

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