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Chapter 0.7 — Norms, Distances, and Geometry

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Formal definition
||x||_2 = sqrt(Σ_i x_i^2)
d(x,y) = ||x-y||
What breaks if misunderstood
  • Nearest-neighbor and clustering behavior becomes unintuitive in high-dim
  • Regularization choices (L1 vs L2) get misapplied