Gradient Descent (Chili)
Asked for a chili recipe, a cook explains there isn't one: just beans in a pot, then gradient descent on the seasonings, one small improvement at a time.
Transcript
"I need your chili recipe." [Chef:] "No recipe! I just throw some beans in a pot, and then do gradient descent on the seasonings."
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024-09-03-gradient-descent/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)