GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines [video]

[franzb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae9EKCyI1xU

[alserio]

tom7 is always the right mix of genius, madness and fun

[tnecniv → alserio]

Any favorites you want to share? Loved this video

[alserio → tnecniv]

As the other commenter said, everything on his channel is gold. Just the other day I was rewatching "Automated 3dfication of Nintendo games" https://youtu.be/xDxjbXAqTPg and "Harder Drives" https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio

[iamevn → tnecniv]

Anything that catches your eye is good but my favorites are:

30 Weird Chess Algorithms: ELO World https://youtu.be/DpXy041BIlA

Reverse Emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS! https://youtu.be/ar9WRwCiSr0

[nick-of-time → tnecniv]

Mine are "Harder Drives"[1], "ELO World"[2], and "Printable x86"[3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpXy041BIlA [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA

[hyperific → tnecniv]

Harder drives is excellent. The comments section of that video is fun to scroll through.

[unlikelymordant]

Previous post (but different): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35780921

[lostmsu]

:( did not have a patience to watch the entire video while focused. I know you could use rounding errors to replace non-linearity. Can somebody summarize what exactly he does for gradient descent here and how well does it work?

[mzs → lostmsu]

http://tom7.org/grad/murphy2023grad.pdf