@Dean
Long story if you wanna read
1. I was trying to use mainly traditional data analysis methods but I realised in order to fully document every possible synergistic effect of 20+ features (including the yaw/pitch/roll of the face to account for margins of error when someone turns their head slightly or hides parts of their face with their hair) i would need to add on some kind of AI model no matter how primitive it is bc its the only way to hit every combo
2. The extra data i got is messy and not normalised which you might think is fine because AI SHOULD be able to LEARN thats the whole point of this robochimp we call the greatest advancement of mankind because why the fuck would the colour of the background of the training images affect the output accuracy of a model and introduce bias well apparently it does because AI has the brain power of a child conceived from pasteurised NUT that doesn't know the difference between jackshit and fuckall so tldr i have to normalise skin and eye colour
3. I ended up training a really primitive model that was essentially a glorified nest of yes/no switches but it was hot steaming garbage so i had to scrap it and fine tune some big opensource model's lora adapters but that meant i had borrow compute $$$ from this other guy because it was way more than just a few decision agorithms and i was dead broke (and he offered btw, i wasn't trying to swindle him or anything) but then he started being shady as hell and so i had to dip bc it got weird and as of now i have 5 google accounts i switch between since each of them has a free hour of compute per day
4. I was sick for a long time and went to the hospital thought i was gonna die etc
5. I actually FAILED my midterms (like genuinely failed, the average midterm grade for the class was 50%) and my classes aren't curved, this predictament has actually surfaced a survival instinct so old that the time for which the instinct was dead was longer than i've been alive
TLDR of the TLDR nothing beats a jet2holiday