Find the Minimum: Trying on the Shoes of an ML training algorithm
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Presented by:

Brian Broll

from Vanderbilt University

Brian Broll is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University. He holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Computer Science and a B.Sc. from Buena Vista University, majoring in mathematics education. His research interests include computer science education and model integrated computing.

This is a simple game where the user is trying to find the minimum of an unknown function. This is a prerequisite to some of the ML work used to develop intuition about gradient descent before learning about it explicitly.

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Date:
2022 August 7 - 08:45 PST
Duration:
3 min
Room:
Plenary
Conference:
Snap!Con 2022
Type:
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