A from-scratch test of the least-squares closed form and the numerical traps in it. The signal is deriving the normal equations, knowing why you never explicitly invert, and reaching for lstsq or the SVD instead. Here is the implementation.
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A from-scratch test of the least-squares closed form and the numerical traps in it. The signal is deriving the normal equations, knowing why you never explicitly invert, and reaching for lstsq or the SVD instead. Here is the implementation.
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