Newton’s Laws of Motion: The Original Gradient Descent

Exploring the shared language of gradient descent and Newton's motion equations

I remember the first course on Machine Learning I took during undergrad as a physics student in the school of engineering. In other words, I was an outsider. While the professor explained the backpropagation algorithm via gradient descent, I had this somewhat vague question in my head: "Is gradient descent a random algorithm?" Before raising my hand to ask the professor, the non-familiar …

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