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title: "Steer an optimizer down the loss curve"
description: "Change the starting point, learning rate, and step count to see gradient descent converge, stall, overshoot, or diverge."
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# Steer an optimizer down the loss curve

Change the starting point, learning rate, and step count to see gradient descent converge, stall, overshoot, or diverge.

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