Alright, let’s talk about this doan ritsu thing. So, the other day I was messing around, trying to get this doan ritsu stuff working. I’d seen some demos and thought, “Hey, I can probably figure that out.” Famous last words, right?
First, I started by cloning the repo. Found it on some forum somewhere. I won’t link it, but you can probably find it with a quick search. Anyway, got the thing downloaded, and then the real fun began.
- Next thing was installing all the dependencies. The readme was kinda vague, just saying “install the stuff.” Thanks, readme.
- So, I started guessing. Figured it probably needed some common libraries, like numpy and pandas. pip install those bad boys.
- Then I ran the main script. Error! Surprise, surprise. It was complaining about some obscure package I’d never heard of.
Did some digging, found out it was some older version of something or other. Had to downgrade a bunch of other packages to get it to work. What a pain.
After that, I finally got it running! The initial results were… underwhelming. It kinda worked, but not really. It was super slow and the accuracy was terrible. Like, worse than random guessing.
Okay, time to debug. I started by printing out all the intermediate values. The data that was going in, the data that was coming out, everything. Turns out, the data preprocessing was all messed up. It was scaling things wrong, and there were some NaNs floating around.
- Fixed the scaling issue. That helped a little.
- Then I had to deal with the NaNs. I just replaced them with zeros. Not the most elegant solution, but it worked for now.
After all that, the performance improved significantly. It was still kinda slow, but the accuracy was actually decent now. I played around with the parameters for a while, trying to squeeze out a little more performance. Eventually, I got it to a point where I was reasonably happy.
The whole thing took me way longer than I expected. But hey, that’s how it always goes, right? It was a good learning experience, even though it was a bit frustrating at times.
Here’s what I learned:
- Readmes are not always your friend. Sometimes you just gotta dive in and figure things out yourself.
- Dependency management is a pain. Use a virtual environment, people!
- Debugging is essential. Print statements are your best friend.
- Don’t be afraid to hack things. Sometimes a quick and dirty solution is good enough.
So yeah, that’s my doan ritsu adventure. It was a bit of a rollercoaster, but I eventually got there. Now, time to move on to the next project!
