EPOCH · day 17 · training in progress

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me learn ML.
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I'm learning machine learning every day until RIVET hits 1,000 downloads. RIVET is a free Windows app that shows what your PC is doing, cleans it up, and has an AI assistant that runs entirely on your machine.

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Day 17's lesson, playable

Be the gradient descent.

This is how a model learns: roll downhill on the loss curve, one step at a time. Drag the ball, set a learning rate, and train. Too small and it crawls. Too big and it flies off. Find the deepest valley.

drag the ball ↔
Learning rate α0.10
Step0
Loss—
w ← w − α · ∂L/∂w
new weight = old weight − step size × slope
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The EPOCH log

Every day, what went in.

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What you're downloading

Where the learning ends up.

01 · ASK

AI that never leaves your PC

Ask RIVET what a process is or why your PC is slow. The model runs locally. Nothing is uploaded, ever.

Ask RIVET answering a question about a process
02 · FIX

A checkup in 30 seconds

First launch runs a checkup and fixes what it finds: junk files, slow startup apps, wasted space. Measured before and after.

RIVET's history of changes with undo
03 · SEE

Everything your PC is doing

Live CPU, memory, GPU, disk and network, with every process explained in plain English.

RIVET's live hardware HUD
The build log · monthly

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Build log · issue 001from Will
▸ Shipped: RIVET Spark, the hotkey AI orb
▸ Learned: gradient descent, hyperparameters, limits
▸ Tip: the one startup app you should delay
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