[HN Gopher] Why Momentum Works (2017)
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       Why Momentum Works (2017)
        
       Author : vector_spaces
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2025-04-28 05:01 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (distill.pub)
 (TXT) w3m dump (distill.pub)
        
       | porridgeraisin wrote:
       | Distill.pub has such high quality content consistently. It's a
       | shame they don't seem to be active anymore.
        
         | imvg wrote:
         | I agree. Just the usage of animations for explanations was a
         | huge step forward. I wonder why the flagship ML/AI conferences
         | have not adopted the distill digital template for papers yet. I
         | think that would be the first step. The quality would follow
        
           | gwern wrote:
           | The quality would not follow because Distill.pub publications
           | take literally hundreds of man-hours for the Distill part.
           | Highly skilled man-hours too, to make any of this work on the
           | Web reliably. (Source: I once asked Olah basically the same
           | question: "How many man-hours of work by Google-tier web
           | developers could those visualizations possibly be, Michael?
           | 10?")
        
             | michael_nielsen wrote:
             | I've been wondering at what point AI assistants are going
             | to reduce that to a manageable level? It's unfortunately
             | not obvious what the main bottlenecks are, though Chris and
             | Shan might have a good sense.
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Discussed at the time:
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       |  _Why Momentum Works_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14034426 - April 2017 (95
       | comments)
        
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