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Linear Regression Prediction is a easy coding interview question covering machine learning, math — the kind asked at FAANG (Facebook/Meta, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) and AI-first companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia.
Implement the prediction step and loss computation for a linear regression model.
prediction(x) = dot(w, x) + b
MSE loss = (1/n) * sum((y_pred - y_true)^2)
Given weights w, bias b, and features x, compute the prediction. Given a batch of predictions and true labels, compute MSE.
This is the forward pass of the simplest neural network -- a single neuron with no activation function.
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