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Speed up lunar lander tutorial #319

Closed btjanaka closed 1 year ago

btjanaka commented 1 year ago

Description

2-4 hours is a pretty long runtime for an introductory tutorial. This PR accelerates the tutorial so that it is more accessible to beginners.

TODO

[x] Reduce itrs since the results are already "good enough" at 250 itrs
[x] Add multiprocessing module -> Google Colab has only 2 cores but this still halves the runtime
[x] Update the lunar lander example and examples.md to reflect that there is multiprocessing
[x] Update tutorial text to reflect multiprocessing
[x] Mention that more itrs is a nice idea in conclusion
[x] Re-run to check that everything works

Questions

Status

[x] I have read the guidelines in CONTRIBUTING.md
[x] I have formatted my code using yapf
[x] I have tested my code by running pytest
[x] I have linted my code with pylint
[x] I have added a one-line description of my change to the changelog in HISTORY.md
[x] This PR is ready to go