alt Hacker News> It works in precisely the same way that you can walk from "here" to "there" by taking a step towards "there", and then repeating.
It's funny how, in order to explain one complex phenomenon, you took an even more complex phenomenon as if it somehow simplifies it.
Sorry, can't tell if that's sarcasm or not.
I wasn't referring to the biomechanical process of walking, I was referring to the process of gradient descent, which is well understood and yes, quite simple.