mathematical-intuition
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Every trained model is rolling downhill on a computed slope
Minimizing x² by hand turns “training” concrete: the derivative points downhill, and a single step-size number decides whether the run settles at the bottom or flies apart.
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A network's gradient is a product of local slopes chained backward
The slope a network rolls down is the product of the local slopes along its links, traced from the loss back to any weight in a single backward pass.