Omry Yadan

@Queuecumber , can you join the Hydra chat?

The core idea behind Hydra is that it gives you the config you need. The app should not worry about overrides and such, it should just get the config it...

> I'm still using Hydra composition, but maybe the name overrides is misleading? > > The reason for this config group (overrides) is that I can give users default hyperparameter...

What I am going for is that the config the application is getting should be exactly what it needs. The application needs a value, it should get it in the...

Hydra 1. 1 offers several ways to avoid config repetition: - Extending configs: https://hydra.cc/docs/next/patterns/extending_configs. - Defining experiments: https://hydra.cc/docs/next/patterns/configuring_experiments - Selecting a config to use based on the name of other...

Cool. They are all implementations of what is described in https://hydra.cc/docs/next/advanced/defaults_list, be sure to read it first. (It's a bit more dense, but will give you a solid foundation).

I think that all those heuristics are good and nice until there is some scenario where they fail. there would ideally be a way to directly specify which Python interpreter...

This is not great for a couple of reasons: 1. It's not direct and not obvious which python would get picked up without actually running nox (and currently it does...

@crwilcox: My suggestion on #233 was to not put this into noxfile.py but to support an environment variable that would change force a specific Python interpreter to be used for...

Please don't let the lack of consensus around my suggestion stop progress on this issue. There are multiple ways to skin this cat, an in fact what I am proposing...