A big fan of Sean Luke's Essentials of Metaheuristics, so I picked up a physical copy for the office. If you want an introductory cookbook of gradient-free algorithms, this is a great way to go. Free online at: cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/m...
Anybody used Taichi? Is it as magical as this Genesis simulator makes it look? Anybody have first hand experience on how it compares to Jax for building RL environments? Reading the docs, it looks like there are some design differences, but I'm curious about what it looks like in practice.
At AAMAS in Detroit this coming week. Ping me if you want to talk about one or more agents!
I feel like something called the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" should be about building a statue of former president Clinton.