Quiz 5

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Question 1

Describe in your own words how gradient descent works.

Question 2

Write your own method of finding the minimum of a function numerically.

Question 3

Consider the minimize function from scipy.optimize. Suppose you give the function one starting point and receive a minimum of 10. Then, you give the function another starting point and receive a minimum of -10. What might be happening? How could you address this?