Wow, not a ML person, but controls and robotics. Yet, this describes my workflow for a lot of things almost to a tee. Even down to the avoiding loops. I tend to

Wow, not a ML person, but controls and robotics. Yet, this describes my workflow for a lot of things almost to a tee. Even down to the avoiding loops. I tend to do that when I want to run the same simulation or analysis for a couple variables or datasets. It's interesting, because in the past I was a lot more prone to turn that into a loop early on. But this makes your code brittle. You'll want to do something slightly different for the two datasets, which means a bunch of conditionals in your loop. It's actually really similar to the problems you get with boolean flags when you try to abstract into a function too soon. It actually takes disciple to for me to commit to copy past but I think it pays it off.