Stealing all of the recommendations!

This made me think of The Left Hand Of Darkness, though I guess that's actually almost the opposite, communication bridging a seemingly impossible gap in understanding each other...

Crazy volume! On the other hand, not that surprising. We also got one of these and only did so because it was such a good deal that even if our complete lack of experience makes research on it hard, we can use it for teaching only, and be okay with spending the money. I doubt we're the only ones!

We can only presume to build machines like us once
we see ourselves as machines first.
Abeba Birhane (2022, p. 13)
This is the core. So true.

True, I've been "socialized" in the AutoML community, how to compare algorithms is a big deal there.

I remember discussing with my advisor whether it's worth evaluating issues with improper HPO setup in RL, he thought it was so obvious that everyone must already be doing it (spoiler: not really)

Well, then there's only one alternative: "We define OurPO as PPO with lr=0.01, ent_coef=0.1.... and compare it to OurQN which is DQN with lr=...." 😂