--- title: "How To Explain Gradient Descent to Your Mom: Complete Tutorial" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-explain-gradient-descent-to-your-mom-complete-tutorial-wlyeo9hyr source_url: https://pub.towardsai.net/how-to-explain-gradient-descent-to-your-mom-complete-tutorial-e48971410c05 type: article source: "Towards AI" published: 2024-02-14T14:04:49.965Z updated: 2024-05-09T08:43:33.910Z tags: ["machine-learning", "linear-regression", "gradient-descent"] reading_time: 8 upvotes: 4 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How To Explain Gradient Descent to Your Mom: Complete Tutorial **[Towards AI](https://daily.dev/sources/tai)** · 8 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary This post explains gradient descent, a core concept in AI/ML techniques, using a simple analogy of predicting weight based on height. It discusses the training process, the method of least squares, and the use of gradient descent to optimize the model parameters. Additionally, it provides historical context for the term 'regression' in 'linear regression'. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#linear-regression](https://daily.dev/tags/linear-regression), [#gradient-descent](https://daily.dev/tags/gradient-descent) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-explain-gradient-descent-to-your-mom-complete-tutorial-wlyeo9hyr)