[Izikiel43]

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

[ghusbands]

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.

[Izikiel43]

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

[liuliu]

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