def save_last_sync(self, ids, process):
        try:
            spec = {'_id': 'last_sync'}
            document = {'$set': {process: ids}}
            self.db.internal.update(spec, document, upsert=True)
        except Exception as e:
            raise DatabaseException(e)
def _cost_gp(self,x):
        """
        Predicts the time cost of evaluating the function at x.
        """
        m, _, _, _ = self.cost_model.predict_withGradients(x)
        return np.exp(m)