kalomaze says he can't get real GPUs anymore, so he's back to toy baselines
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-25
RL researcher kalomaze self-deprecatingly notes that without meaningful access to real GPUs anymore, he's been tinkering with toy baselines "just to feel something." Yacine MTB replies that he should start with PufferLib, the high-throughput parallel RL training library.
A small but telling anecdote: compute scarcity is squeezing even top open-source researchers out of real experiments.
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