Tag: Descent

A Guide to Finding Your Indigenous Ancestry for People of Mexican and Chicano Descent

It is crucial for anyone navigating this territory to understand that Native American tribal affiliation is a tremendously sensitive issue for many reasons. First, Natives across North and South America tend to be community-based. This means that membership in that particular tribe requires one to a...

A Simple Introduction to Gradient Descent

Gradient descent is one of the most common optimization algorithms in machine learning. Understanding its basic implementation is fundamental to understanding all the advanced optimization algorithms built off of it. Background This article is supplementary to An Introduction to Machine L...