SVD Project

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Goal

The goal of this project is to learn to use Matlab or Octave to work with the SVD of a matrix. We will cover low-rank approximations, a sort of “super” least squares idea. While I recommend learning to use GNU Octave on your own computer, you may find this online web-form copy to be handy for this project.

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