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Chapter I

Foundations of Learning

What a model is, how it measures being wrong, and how it gets less wrong one step at a time. Everything else in the atlas is built on these pages.

In this chapter

■□□ Foundations ■■□ Practitioner ■■■ Research
  1. § 1 What Is a Model? In preparation Level: Foundations
  2. § 2 Gradient Descent In preparation Level: Foundations
  3. § 3 On the Learning Rate Read now → Level: Foundations
  4. § 4 Momentum In preparation Level: Practitioner
  5. § 5 Linear Regression In preparation Level: Foundations
  6. § 6 Probability for Learning Machines In preparation Level: Foundations
  7. § 7 Vectors and Matrices In preparation Level: Foundations

Topics: Probability · Linear algebra · Gradient descent · Linear regression · Formats: Explainers · Plates · Exercises