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The speaker says neural-network training derives gradients through recursive applications of the chain rule, enabling optimization of arbitrary differentiable functions.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“regards 100 lines can easily understand it you're training it's a recursive application of chain rule to derive the gradient which allows you to optimize any arbitrary differential function so it's a i love finding these like”Play from 2:18:01Report a misattribution
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