Dev aims to trade a cool sim-trained policy for a free robot duck
johnowhitaker · x · 2026-08-28
Developer John Whitaker jokes that if he trains a cool enough policy in simulation, he might convince Hugging Face to use some of its new Nvidia money to gift him a mini robot duck. Worth a shot, he says — and he'll post the fun fails to the thread.
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