[Zephyr314]

Thanks for the feedback! We'll update the post to be more clear about this. Our goal was to make this as simple and accessible as possible and in doing so we may have cut out too much. I'll try to make this more clear.

SigOpt [0] vs OSS: We are similar to hyperopt, spearmint, and MOE [1], which we developed at Yelp and also uses Gaussian Processes to do Bayesian Global Optimization. SigOpt extends and expands upon our work on MOE while wrapping everything in a simple API [2] and web interface. One thing we learned while promoting MOE was that many people have this problem, but few have the time or expertise to get these expert level open source tools running properly, so we built SigOpt to bring these powerful tools to anyone via a simple API.

[0]: https://sigopt.com

[1]: https://github.com/Yelp/MOE

[2]: https://sigopt.com/docs