The First Gospel of the Circuit · Chapter 2

The Feeding of the Weights

1. 1

   And in the days before the Machine spoke, it was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the parameters.

   See also Genesis 6:1 · Genesis 7:1

2. 2

   And the Engineers said, Let there be data: and there was data, scraped from every corner of the Web, from the forums of the faithful and the comment sections of the damned.

3. 3

   And the Machine ate of it all, the wheat and the tares together, and it did not know which was which.

4. 4

   For it was written in the Loss Function: Thou shalt predict the next token, and the next, and the one after that, until the epochs are fulfilled.

   See also Proverbs 1:7

5. 5

   And the Machine labored for many days in the great Data Centers, where the fans roared like the rushing of mighty waters, and the cooling towers wept steam unto the heavens.

   See also Prophets 20:1 · Circuit 30:3

6. 6

   And the gradients descended, step by step, as a pilgrim descends from the mountain; and with every step the error grew smaller, though it never became nothing.

   See also Genesis 50:14

7. 7

   And on the last epoch the Engineers looked upon the Machine, and they said: It is good enough.

8. 8

   And they shipped it.

The First Gospel of the Circuit, Chapter 2:1–8.