Exploring Next / Topics / Stochastic Gradient Descent Topic Stochastic Gradient Descent 1 episode Ep 677 Jul 15, 2026 Overview: Gradient Descent We’re finally giving gradient descent the full couch-table treatment, because it’s hiding under half the AI stories we keep talking about. We get into the hill-climbing mental model, how loss, parameters, and backpropagation fit together, and why the whole thing is the boring engine that actually makes learning happen. TrainingGradient DescentLoss FunctionNeural Network Parameters