That's a choice, and that choice turns out to be very interesting and really important, because if you connect these two points together, you get a straight line that has to intercept the x-axis at some point.

在这一选择下,我们会发现一件非常有趣，而且极其重要的事,当你把这两点用直线连接起来，你会发现这条直线,将与x轴在某点相交。

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That's called the regression line and the intercept is called alpha--there's alpha.

这就是回归直线,这个是截点,用alpha表示...这里是alpha

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