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Backpropagation step by step: the forward and backward pass

https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/backpropagation
2•tohms•45m ago

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tohms•44m ago
I went back over backprop recently and it was humbling how much this stuff had faded, especially nowadays with large models that encourage passive learning in my opinion. So writing it up in public was my way of relearning it.

I tried to make it intuitive, interactive and with some details and proofs for the curious, and a few exercises at the end to practise actively.

Feedback welcome, especially if a step is unclear or something is wrong.

MongoDB API compatible DocumentDB announces 1.0

https://documentdb.io/blogs/posts/documentdb-1-0/
1•xgerman•49s ago•0 comments

A Little League coach pulled aside an opposing player [Meta Glasses]

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7693356/2026/10/16/little-league-coach-viral-leadership-2/
1•compiler-guy•1m ago•0 comments

And Soon It Will Be Forgotten

https://desmolysium.substack.com/p/and-soon-it-will-be-forgotten
1•paulpauper•2m ago•0 comments

The Death of the Comeback

https://morbidcuriosity.substack.com/p/the-death-of-the-comeback
1•paulpauper•3m ago•0 comments

The big lie we tell ourselves as we get older

https://coached.com/essays/the-big-lie-we-tell-ourselves-as-we-get-older/
1•rohanm93•3m ago•1 comments

Lilly code editor outperforms Neovim using custom treesitter equivalent

https://tauraamui.site/blog/lilly-perf-vs-neovim-and-others
1•bloostar•4m ago•0 comments

Bill Gross bets AI can help mass produce 1M new startups

https://fortune.com/2026/10/19/bill-gross-idealab-ai-million-startups-jobs/
1•cybermango•4m ago•0 comments

Development Statistics for the 7.3 Kernel

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1100241/27c42c1a81a81577/
1•cjd8•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CueCut Teleprompter for videos, podcasts and Zoom calls

https://getcuecut.com/
1•beerglass•5m ago•0 comments

Counterexample to Euler's Conjecture on Sums of Like Powers (1966) [pdf]

https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1966-72-06/S0002-9904-1966-11654-3/S0002-9904-1966-11654-3.pdf?...
1•theanonymousone•7m ago•0 comments

GTA 6 release could cost US economy $1B in lost productivity in just one day

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gta-6-launch-billion-dollar-sick-day-1818190
2•Vaslo•7m ago•0 comments

Techno-Optimism Archive – Old Promises of New Technologies

https://technooptimism.org/
1•ohjeez•7m ago•0 comments

We Put a Browser in Everything and Called It Progress

https://dayvster.com/blog/we-put-a-browser-in-everything-and-called-it-progress/
2•ibobev•10m ago•0 comments

AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-proved-the-quasi-riemann-hypothesis-what-happens-now-20261019/
1•ibobev•10m ago•0 comments

Decoding base64 in Python at 10 gigabytes per second

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/17/decoding-base64-in-python-at-10-gigabytes-per-second/
2•ibobev•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ProvLedger – stops coding agents repeating mistakes

https://github.com/yizhao95/prov_ledger
2•yzhao950213•11m ago•1 comments

The Bourgain Project

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/19/the-bourgain-project/
1•smilelamp•11m ago•0 comments

Anthropic commits 5% of shares to new public benefit fund

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/10/19/anthropic-commits-5percent-of-shares-to-new-public-benefit-...
1•geox•11m ago•0 comments

I Tried to Verify Rust OSS with Lean 4 and Found Many Bugs

https://medium.com/@Koukyosyumei/i-tried-to-formally-verify-popular-rust-projects-with-lean-4-but...
3•syumei•12m ago•0 comments

Surveying the landscape of CSS microframeworks (2023)

https://blakewatson.com/journal/surveying-the-landscape-of-css-micro-frameworks/
1•ForHackernews•13m ago•0 comments

Toronto man accused of driving rental car 30k kms in just 7 days

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/10/19/toronto-man-rental-car-30-thousand-kms-avis-seven-days/
2•breitling•14m ago•0 comments

Linux KVM guest-host escape rated critical

https://www.theregister.com/virtualization/2026/10/19/linux-kvm-guest-host-escape-rated-critical-...
2•mooreds•14m ago•0 comments

Building a Dependency Graph of Our Python Codebase

https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/hrtbeat/dependency-graph-python-codebase
1•Tommkruix123•15m ago•0 comments

Maths, Metal, and Mandelbrot

https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/maths-metal-mandelbrot
1•jakey_bakey•15m ago•0 comments

Who Will Benefit from the AI Revolution?

https://time.com/article/2026/10/19/who-will-benefit-from-the-ai-revolution-/
1•voxleone•15m ago•0 comments

Spirit Room – Test whether agents can find and use your MCP tools

https://spiritroom.app/
1•LeonidBugaev•17m ago•0 comments

Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode Find MCP Tools

https://spiritroom.app/blog/optimise-mcp-tools-for-agents/
1•LeonidBugaev•17m ago•0 comments

The Download: preserving the Arctic permafrost, and playful AI agents

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/19/1147103/the-download-preserving-the-arctic-permafrost...
1•joozio•18m ago•0 comments

Why TypeScript lets you overrule its type checker

https://www.ultracite.ai/research/type-escape-hatches
1•fmerian•20m ago•0 comments

Python's binary wheels and supply chain attacks

https://rushter.com/blog/python-binary-wheels/
1•theanonymousone•21m ago•0 comments