"Why isn't the loss going down?" — He was training a GAN
jfischoff · x · 2026-10-07
Quoting a classic screenshot of someone asking "Why is the loss not going down?", the poster has a eureka moment: "Holy shit I get it now. He was training a GAN." A nod to the timeless meme that GAN losses flatline and oscillate by design, baffling every newcomer.
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