A near-universal ML fundamentals question. Anyone can recite 'L1 is lasso, L2 is ridge'; the signal is the gradient-and-geometry reason L1 forces weights to exactly zero and when you'd choose each. Here is that answer.
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A near-universal ML fundamentals question. Anyone can recite 'L1 is lasso, L2 is ridge'; the signal is the gradient-and-geometry reason L1 forces weights to exactly zero and when you'd choose each. Here is that answer.
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