Residual Sum of Squares
RSS - Error
Residual Sum of Squares is important. The more strict notation is error, not residual because Error is the random variable but residual is a constant after fitted.

👀 Geometrical view

is the projection onto the column space of . This is because is the projection matrix that has symmetric / idempotent properties. is called as hat matrix (giving a hat)
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A (Under the condition that )
What
Where
Col Space of
How
Projection
, because . If we estimate in other methods with exclusion of method, the form still remains. is interpreted still as the vector on . However, In this case is not a projected vector so that the residual and variables are not orthogonal.
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