hyperparameter tuning
Hyperparameter tuning is the eternal human ritual of numerically coaxing performance from machine learning models. Learning rates and regularization terms are hunted like arcane relics, failures cursed, successes briefly glorified. Theory gives way to trial-and-error as the ultimate teacher, luring exhausted practitioners into the abyss. Automated tools exist, yet legend holds that intuition and luck triumph in the end. The moment a model obeys, the world seems briefly bathed in reason.