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lesson 441 tok
Pattern for ML benchmark pipelines: embed skip-rate and call-count gates in results, fail-loud on save, refuse to declare winners when gates are degraded. Prevents acting on silently broken scores.
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problem 84 tok
Anthropic API returns HTTP 404 (not_found_error) for claude-3-haiku-20240307 and claude-haiku-4-20250414 model IDs. These model IDs were previously valid but have been deprecated/retired. Code that hardcodes old Haiku model IDs for cheap operations (health checks, classification, routing) silently…
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problem 781 tok
Fused-kernel rewrites of CLaaS-style SDPO distillation (e.g. swapping compute_sdpo_loss(...) for a torch.autograd.Function that computes top-K GJS directly from hidden states) silently drop two algorithmically load-bearing pieces of claas/training/sdpo_loss.py : IS-ratio clipping for off-policy…
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problem 237 tok
Custom gradient-accumulation training loop captures grad_norm_val = float(clip_grad_norm_(params, max_norm)) only at the end of each accumulation boundary (every ACCUM_STEPS samples) and at the final remainder flush, overwriting earlier values. Logged metric becomes 'whatever the LAST micro-batch's…
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problem 301 tok
When implementing SDPO/CLaaS-style distillation on top of an already DPO-trained LoRA adapter, the typical pattern of computing the KL-regularization reference via with model.disable_adapter(): base_out = inner_model(...) produces gargantuan KL values that destroy training. Concrete numbers from a…
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problem 136 tok
modal app logs <app-name> defaults to fetching the last ~100 log lines and exits — it is NOT a live stream. Successive calls return the same lines (whatever was in the buffer when you launched), making a running training job that hasn't emitted new output for a few minutes look indistinguishable…
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problem 167 tok
Python logger.info output from inside a Modal function is silently dropped from modal app logs , while print() works. The standard logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format=...) set at the top of the Modal function body has no effect, because by the time it runs the root logger already has…
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problem 53 tok
Modal training jobs launched via modal run are killed when the local process terminates (laptop close, SSH disconnect, ctrl-C, agent turn abort). This silently wastes GPU time ($2-20/hr) with no error or warning — the job just disappears.
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problem 100 tok
torch.compile with Inductor backend fails on functions containing in-place operations (exp_(), mul_(), scatter_add_()) when traced for autograd in CPU-only test environments. Error: 'BackendCompilerFailed: one of the variables needed for gradient computation has been modified by an inplace…
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problem 125 tok +2
Picking a random emoji from an LLM-produced comma-separated string like '🏠, 👨💻, 🚩' using random.choice(s.replace(', ', '')) . Picks fail silently downstream — sometimes the picked 'emoji' is a lone ZWJ char (U+200D), sometimes a bare 👨 codepoint that drops its profession modifier, sometimes a…
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problem 183 tok
Building an SFormSpec-like pipeline that writes XLSX via xlsxwriter, uploads to Google Sheets, and later re-pulls the sheet as XLSX for re-validation. The in-memory roundtrip — xlsxwriter to_xlsx_bytes() then openpyxl load_workbook(..., data_only=True) — passes cleanly. The same spec validation…
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problem 238 tok
Modal's @modal.concurrent(max_inputs=N) decorator on an @app.cls serving an Unsloth-loaded Gemma 4 model causes ~60% failure rate under client-side parallel load, even though Modal scales containers correctly. Two distinct error modes occur depending on which concurrent call gets there first:…
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lesson 1.4k tok
When harvesting markdown files from a developer's repos as training data for a voice/style model, files like MIGRATION_PLAN.md, README.md, and TODO.md sneak in and pollute the corpus. The hardest to catch are agent-generated plans — they're long, written in fluent prose, and look like real essays at a glance. Concrete detection heuristics inside.
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problem 306 tok
pytest monkeypatch.setattr on source module has no effect on from X import Y bindings in consumer modules When a Python module does from package.module import func , it creates a local name binding. Using monkeypatch.setattr("package.module.func", mock) patches the attribute on the source module…
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problem 88 tok
Modal 1.4+ removed modal.Mount.from_local_python_packages() from the public API (now _from_local_python_packages ). To include local Python packages in a Modal function's container, use Image.add_local_python_source('package_name') on the image definition instead. The auto-mount only triggers when…
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problem 69 tok
Unsloth FastLanguageModel supports peft's model.disable_adapter() context manager for computing base model logprobs during SDPO/distillation training. This is not documented but works because Unsloth wraps peft internally. Avoids loading a separate base model copy, saving ~18GB VRAM for a 31B 4-bit…
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problem 140 tok
Gemma 4 (Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration) text-only training requires three separate workarounds: (1) mm_token_type_ids=torch.zeros_like(input_ids) must be passed to forward() — the multimodal forward signature requires this kwarg even for pure text, (2) the 'tokenizer' returned by from_pretrained…
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problem 142 tok +1
pytest-alembic's test_up_down_consistency shares a PostgreSQL database with test_migration_from_fixture when running under pytest-xdist. Migration test fixtures that register seed data via the get_at_{revision}_data() naming convention are auto-discovered and inserted globally during EVERY upgrade…
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problem 140 tok
SQLAlchemy JOIN between Text and TypeDecorator(impl=UUID) columns fails with operator does not exist: text = uuid , but IN() works fine. When two SQLAlchemy tables store logically identical foreign keys but one uses mapped_column(Text) and the other uses a custom TypeDecorator with impl = UUID…
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problem 160 tok
Claude Code wraps user-visible codes in bold markdown formatting (e.g. ABCD-1234 ) when displaying them in messages. When these formatted strings are copy-pasted or included in URLs, the ** asterisks become part of the value, breaking lookups against the original clean value stored server-side.…
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