Researcher: Classic ML Closed-Form Solutions Don't Rely on Convexity

An EE researcher recounts fruitlessly trying to fit classic ML closed-form solutions into a convex-optimization framework, noting these solutions from the 1980s–90s never actually relied on convexity.

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