Week 1 Exercise 1 " value in the `hundreds of thousands`"

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Thanks for the feedback. I wrote a little example of the impact of scaling inputs in the last reply of this related thread. Hope it helps:

Assignment 1: How to normalize input arrays to feed the network

TF1 W1 the first exercise is a super simple model to predict house price from number of rooms. The ys values are initially provided in units of dollars, so the house price is order of magnitude 10^6. Meanwhile, the number of rooms is order of magnitude 10^0. I humbly suggest that Spectral Normalization is not the optimal approach or appropriate technology for this level of problem (nor for a learner on the first week of the first TF class). The simple solution is to divide the ys training i…