https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/tags/matrices/Recent content in Matrices on Rik Kisnah - BlogHugoenSat, 01 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/posts/matrix-neural-net-dreams/Sat, 01 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/posts/matrix-neural-net-dreams/Machine Learning Before It Was Cool (1999) While everyone worried about Y2K, I was playing with neural networks at NTU. Not because I thought they’d ship in products—they were academic curiosities then. But because the math was beautiful. The core insight: if you could represent a problem as matrices, you could teach a network to solve it via backpropagation. Weights → matrix multiply → gradient descent → improved weights. Repeat until convergence.