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Realized I had been feeding my AI training data backwards for 6 months

Last week I ran a model validation and got a 20% accuracy hit. Turned out I was feeding the training data in reverse chronological order the whole time. Anyone else deal with a basic setup mistake that took forever to catch?
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benb21
benb211mo ago
Hold up, you were feeding it in reverse for SIX MONTHS? That's insane. The model must have been basically learning a time-reversed version of the data, which is wild to think about. What kind of weird patterns or predictions did it spit out before you caught it?
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the_logan
the_logan1mo ago
How much time did you lose re-training after you caught the mistake?
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