Took me 3 days to train a basic AI model because I was using the wrong data format

I spent nearly 72 hours trying to get a simple image classifier to work, and it turned out my CSV file had the labels in the wrong column. Has anyone else lost a weekend to something that dumb?

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coleman.henry21d ago

Oh man, that stings so bad. I've definitely been there, wasted a whole Saturday once because I named a folder "test_images" instead of just "test" and the script literally couldn't find the data. It's always something that looks completely stupid once you actually find it too, like a missing comma or a single wrong character. The worst part is when you finally fix it and everything runs in like 5 minutes, makes you feel like you wasted hours for nothing. What format were you trying to use before?

nancy92921d ago

Cannot believe you spent 72 hours on a wrong column, that is brutal beyond words. I once wasted two days because my training file had an extra blank row at the top, so the model just kept failing silently over and over. Makes me sweat just thinking about how easily a tiny mistake can eat up an entire weekend like that.