Intuition on Minimizing Squared Distance
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Understanding “the mean minimizes the mean squared error”
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How do I show that the mean of the posterior density minimizes this squared error loss function?
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within cluster sum of squared distances
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Trouble with gradient intuition
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Minimizing quadratic objective over convex set
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Why do we usually choose to minimize the sum of square errors (SSE) when fitting a model?
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Distance between local maximum and local minimum
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Why is the squared difference so commonly used?
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Pairwise Mahalanobis distances
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Distance of nearest zero of an analytic function
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Bordered Hessian matrix to find a minimum of the function
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The median minimizes the sum of absolute deviations (the $ {\ell}_{1} $ norm)
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Why do smaller weights result in simpler models in regularization?
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Intuitive and Formulaic Justification for the Rao-Blackwell Theorem
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Minimize Function over Convex Subset
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How to minimize residual sum of squares of an exponential fit?
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Expected Value of Local Maxima and Local Minima