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Page 384: maximum of the Lagrangian -> minimum of the Lagrangian #660

Open harrysun0 opened 3 years ago

harrysun0 commented 3 years ago

Describe the mistake "maximum of the Lagrangian" should be "minimum of the Lagrangian"

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  1. version (Draft (2021-05-08) of “Mathematics for Machine Learning”)
  2. Chapter 12 Classification with Support Vector Machines
  3. page: 384
  4. Just below equation (12.37) "We now find the maximum of the Lagrangian..."

Proposed solution It should be "We now find the minimum of the Lagrangian..."