Backpropagation: The Math That's Secretly Running Your Life While You Scroll TikTok

Your phone knows more about your next date than you do, and it's all because of THIS equation...

Apr 28, 2025

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Why Math From 1986 Is Ruining Your Dating Life

Quick question: What do your Spotify recommendations, your credit score rejection, and that weirdly accurate targeted ad for therapy have in common?

They're all powered by an algorithm called backpropagation that's literally doing calculus on your life choices right now. It's the mathematical equivalent of th…

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