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SELFMADE
May9-11, 01:42 PM
can't figure out how that underlined segment transforms into whats at the bottom:

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/9493/imag0254p.jpg

Stephen Tashi
May9-11, 02:13 PM
It relies on
||x||^2 = x^T x
||y||^2 = y^T y
(-x^T y - y^T x) = -x^T y - x^Ty = -2 x^T y