Vent: My AI model training crashed after 3 days for a simple data type error

I was training a new image generator model on my local machine, and it ran for over 72 hours before hitting a memory error because one image file was in the wrong format. I had to restart the whole process from scratch after fixing that single file. Has anyone else lost days of work to a tiny, stupid data issue like this?

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henrycooper24d ago

Ugh, that's the worst. Had a similar thing happen where a single corrupted text file killed a week-long scrape.

jessica_hernandez1724d ago

Oh man, "killed a week-long scrape" is my entire life story. I once had a script running for days just to have it all fail because I forgot a single comma. Felt like the universe was personally laughing at me. My code is basically held together with hope and old gum at this point.

seanlee14d ago

Tell me about it. I started adding a quick file check at the start of my scripts now, just to make sure everything loads before the real work begins. Saves so much headache later.