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How linear regression works intuitively and how it leads to gradient descent
Building an intuitive understanding of how Linear Regression works and how it leads to Gradient Descent
In this post, we’ll see how that starts with a straight line: how linear regression makes the first guess, and gradient descent keeps improving it. That doesn't mean much in isolation (nobody's buying a 0-square-foot house), but it sets the baseline, like the minimum price you'd expect even for the tiniest studio. Squaring the errors pushes us toward a line that stays consistently close, not one that swings between lucky guesses and huge misses.
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