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distinction between column and row vector #614

Closed skabaw closed 3 years ago

skabaw commented 3 years ago

I would suggest that the clarification of the distinction between the row and the column vector goes before the definition of outer and dot products. Before, it is unclear that a standard vector is a column vector.

Location

  1. Draft (2021-01-14) of “Mathematics for Machine Learning”. Feedback: https://mml-book.com
  2. chapter 2.4
  3. page 38
  4. line number/equation number: 3, 2.64

Proposed solution Put the remark on vector multiplication below

skabaw commented 3 years ago

accidentally closed

mpd37 commented 3 years ago

We are fairly explicit about this in chapter 2: image