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I worked in the tracing and tracking all the thousands of data sets that got tweaked and permuted and changed hands between thousands of researchers and data engineers at a major lab. The data that goes into training runs is permuted so much from the OG data that tracing the lineage is not trivial (dramatic understatement).

And the difficulty is harder than just the extreme scale of text searching. but also explodes with organizational difficulty since there are so many people tweaking/shifting data independently upstream of the actual training run, and no they will not all add the telemetry you wish they did.

In the ideal, should it be this hard? Well, no, but that's org wrangling for you.

parent benmathes 1 month ago

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