Machine Learning: Gradient Descent (The Art of Descent)

The steep slope of where I stand

The flow of error, the flow of water: Negative Gradient!

How to find a path in a dark valley

Reading the slope beneath my feet with my whole being: Reflect!

Steps too large rush past the truth: Overshoot!

Steps too small keep me bound in place: Undershoot!

Let go of haste, move with precision

A path of carving myself down: Refine!

Humility in descending with the slope

A wise stride: Learning Rate!

Don't try to arrive all at once

Growth is the miracle of tiny adjustments

Repeated tuning is not a tedious loop

But the only ladder closer to truth

Until the day I reach the global minimum

Tens of thousands of repetitions

Become my most honest record: Repeat!

Humility in descending with the slope

A wise stride: Learning Rate!

Don't try to arrive all at once

Growth is the miracle of tiny adjustments

The direction the gradient points

That is a law of nature

As water flows naturally to lower ground

Don't force the answer

Quietly entrust yourself to the flow

Until the slope becomes flat

Until the trembling of the mind grows still

Like water, lowering myself as I flow

Reflect. Refine. Repeat!

Constantly falling drops of water

Eventually pierce solid stone