Why does everyone say to understand gradients intuitively before formulas, and what does that even mean
Advice I keep getting is to build intuition for gradients before drowning in formulas, but nobody says what the intuition actually is. Right now a gradient is just a thing I compute. For those who have the intuitive grasp, how do you picture it? Is it the slope direction, a compass pointing uphill,…
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- 2026-10-28 04:48 · r/learnmachinelearning
Why does everyone say to understand gradients intuitively before formulas, and what does that even mean