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The Learning Rate

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The stride of descent is the learning rate — and the anchor rule of modern training, each weight moving by stride times error times its own input, is the perceptron's nudge with a graded error.

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The nudging rule was gradient descent wearing mittens; the smooth bend supplied the grading.

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One procedure spans the unit — the continuity is the insight, not a coincidence.

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