Allow custom save_dir in evolve parameters

[MattVAD]

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Hello everyone and thank you for your work on this project !

I was trying to save all the results concerning the evolve parameters in my drive with the "--project" peramater of the train.py script without any success. The results were always saved in the run/evolve directory.

In order to go beyond this limitation, I comment the line 518 in train.py. That is :

I think in this case of training, that can be very long, it's better to allow the user to custom his save directory.
Many thanks !

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[glenn-jocher]

@MattVAD sounds like a reasonable use case. Can you submit a PR to use custom --project with evolve? Thanks!

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