Machine Learning

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Understanding gradient descent

I totally expected get started with coding at this point. After all, I have a great (basic) understanding of what a perceptron is, and how several of these are arranged in layers within a neural network. And it's intuitive to think of the network as a computer program (because it IS one, or at least...

2025-11-19

WTF is a cost function anyway?

ML endeavors begin

As someone who has been a software developer and a builder for quite some time now, it's been humbling trying to get back to research and studies. Lately, I've been very curious about how the AI tools I use every day in life really work behind the scenes. I've learnt all about it back in my days at...

2025-11-09

Tackling machine learning as a subject, from a builder's perspective