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5 timestamped hits 3 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-05-26, day precision Aliases: back-propagations, propagation, propagations

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back propagation

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Let's just say you have like a billion faces one billion faces. Now what you're trying to do is you're trying to differentiate these..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: From Iran To The AI God (2026-05-26, day precision).

Most connected source readings: From Iran To The AI God; The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control; The Bureaucracy That Ate China.

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back propagation

Glossary

The feedback process Jiang is beginning to describe for machine learning, where weights are adjusted according to output error. The feedback process Jiang says underlies AI and is later relabeled as deep learning and neural networks.

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From Iran To The AI God

2026-05-26, day precision · Game Theory #28: Predictive History

Transcript

"Let's just say you have like a billion faces one billion faces. Now what you're trying to do is you're trying to differentiate these..."

From Iran To The AI God

2026-05-26, day precision · Game Theory #28: Predictive History

Transcript

"...to match up with their names. Alright? And we call this back propagation. And that's how AI works. And that's all it does. Okay?..."

The Bureaucracy That Ate China

2025-03-13, day precision · Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom

Transcript

"...is the last ethnically Chinese dynasty committed to the protection and propagation of Chinese culture. The Tang Dynasty, the founders, the Li family, they're..."

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