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Gradient Descent is Rob, with frequent collaborators Ryan and Xanadu. Gradient Descent is also the name of an algorithm developed by the artificial intelligence crowd and used to solve optimization problems.
Rob first discovered electronic music while listening to Giorgio Moroder in the womb, then again at age 12 when he picked up a used Yamaha DX7 to play in a local garage band, and then again at 15 sneaking into NYC clubs like Limelight, Tunnel and Twilo. For Rob, the "summer of love" lasted at least 12 years, soaking up the dance scene at raves, clubs and festivals around New York, Miami, Amsterdam, Ibiza, Israel, the UK and Canada. After a particularly good rave, Rob and his buddies messed around with some primitive sequencing software and was instantly hooked: "Detractors used to bemoan dance music by saying that it was produced by kids in basements with computers... until that day it never occured to me that I was a kid with a computer in a basement, and it was finally time to put the music in my head and in my heart into motion." Rob is currently a PhD candidate at Columbia in Computational Neuroscience, and studying Electronic Music Production at the School of Audio Engineering in New York.
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