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I'm going through an old (~1 year) codebase that I just haven't had time for, and, I can't stress this enough:
DESIGN YOUR CODE WITH A NAIVE DEVELOPER IN MIND. Yes, even if you're in academia; yes, even if you plan to be the only one working on the project.
Often, this will mean coming up with a plan for the directory structure *before* you even write a single line of code. This also means keeping track of the dependencies in a readme.
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on a more specific but related note,
KEEP TRACK OF YOUR HYPERPARAMETER TESTING
- the values you tested
- the metric(s) you optimized over (yes, one of these can be time)
- how you performed the testing (did you do a grid search? did you test each one individually? if so, what order did you test them in?)
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I have so many results files. SO MANY. and I have no idea what most of them are, except that I know that the most recent ones were used in my write-up.
so what the hell do I do with the rest???