GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines
Why it was recommended
A fun example of that (making a neural network using floating point error as a source of non-linearity)
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What it covers
Tom 7 (suckerpinch) delivers a long, comedic digression on gradient descent and floating-point imprecision. He shows how rounding behavior can supply the nonlinearity. It is for someone who wants the derivation, proof, or implementation detail.
Video details
- Channel
- suckerpinch
- Length
- 55 min 2 sec
- Year
- 2023
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