What is the best strategy to choose w and b?

Course Q&A Machine Learning Specialization Supervised ML: Regression and Classification
1

Hello Everyone,

What is the best strategy to choose w and b when trying to find the first model for linear regression, and also when computing the first gradient descent do we always choose zero for w?

2

Set the initial values to zero.
There is no method by which you can make any better initial guess

3

Okay. Thank you!