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Spent 4 hours debugging a dataset, it was a single missing comma
I was training a text classifier on 3,000 customer reviews. Kept getting garbage outputs. Took me 4 hours to find a comma missing in a JSON file. Loaded the corrected version and it worked instantly. Anyone else waste a whole afternoon on tiny formatting errors?
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logan_wood15d ago
Ah man, that is the absolute worst. I spent like 5 hours once trying to figure out why a script kept crashing on the server. Turned out I had a trailing slash in a file path that was supposed to be there but the code was reading it wrong somehow. Stuff like that makes you want to throw your laptop out the window. Its always the dumb little things that eat up the most time, not the actual hard logic problems. Feel your pain for sure.
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green.noah15d ago
Wait @williamw75, is a comma really a flex or just the universe trolling devs for fun?
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