I find myself watching tensorboard more than working- just wondering if others who have fallen into this pattern have words of advice wrt productivity

  • timo_kk@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I mark the expected duration of my experiments both in a google calendar as well as a project journal. That way, I know when it’s “time” to check in on the runs.

    I also use Weights & Biases, which sends me a mail if something crashes so I can check up when I really need to.

    Curve watching is just a waste of time, you should train yourself to get out of the habit even if it’s difficult for you.

    • blearx@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I wondered about weights and biases. Does it go well with tensorflow? Are you liking it so far?

      • timo_kk@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Yeah, I’m liking it. It has strengths and weaknesses like every tool. The biggest advantages for me are:

        • Dead easy to use.
        • Very good for collaborations: You can set up teams or share reports.
        • Good features for analyzing results: You can filter, group etc.

        Disadvantages:

        • The interface becomes slow when you’ve uploaded lots of runs to the same project. That’s why I usually split runs into multiple projects depending on the hypotheses that I want to verify.
        • Exporting data from the server is not trivial. Once you’ve figured it out though you can re-use your code.

        The pros outweigh the cons for me.

    • 0ctobogs@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I use pushover.net to send my phone a push notification when something noteworthy happens. Just drop a little function in my trainer loop. Extremely useful and you can programmatically set the notification message so it’ll tell me what my numbers are when I’m at lunch or whatever.

    • Zemeniite@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Instead of relying on Weights & Biases sending me an email I’ve implemented alerts being sent to either a Slack or a Discord channel. They are always sent on error with the error message. I also receive a message after a predetermined interval of training with metrics.

      Just another idea if someone doesn’t want to rely on W&B

    • LoyalSol@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Curve watching in the initial steps of training is important, but once you get stable behavior time to go to the kitchen, grab some coffee, and do something else with the rest of the day.

      • lumin0va@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        No it isn’t. Has anyone here ran more than one experiment at a time? Clearly not because you can’t curve watch hundreds of runs at the same time. Anything that can be achieved by curve watching can be easily automated.