Treatment learning outperforms other methods

Greg went to NASA AMES this summer and found that treatment learning (tar3 and tar4) beat the heck out of a range of standard methods (simulated annealing and gradient descent) for optimizing NASA simulators.

Meanwhile, he wowwed the hell out of the NASA folks. Maybe we can send grad students there every year?

For more, see his on-line talk: The Diagnosis of Mission-Critical Failures.