Unveiling the Magic: How Scikit-learn’s fit() finds Your "Best Fit Line" (And where the Cost Function Hides)

A machine learning (ML) Python scripting tutorial.

Unveiling the Magic: How Scikit-learn’s fit() finds Your "Best Fit Line" (And where the Cost Function Hides)

If you’ve dipped your toes into machine learning with Python, chances are you’ve written lines of code that look something like this:

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from sklearn.linear_model import LinearRegression
regressor = LinearRegression()
regressor.fit(X_train, y_train)

And just like that, you’ve got yourself a “best fit line” for your data! It feels almost magical, doesn’t it?