A Simple Mental Model for Gradient Descent
A simple mental model for gradient descent using linear regression, loss, derivatives, and step size.
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Mostly Figured Out.
Things I’m learning, building, questioning, and gradually making sense of.
I’m a software engineer exploring machine learning, AI, software systems, programming, homelab projects, journaling, and whatever else happens to catch my attention. This is less a collection of definitive answers than a record of what finally made something click.
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A few habits from systems work that have helped and a few that have needed unlearning.