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friendly reminder that word2vec is not a measure of semantic similarity, really; closer to "do these words appear in similar places in similar sentences in similar newspaper articles"
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Replying to @Christintweets and @QiaochuYuan
I learned yesterday from my friends that word2vec was trained on a corpus of google news articles 🤦🏻‍♀️ so it was really “most likely to appear in the same news article” rather than synonyms as I initially misunderstood
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also, the image a few tweets up has a sensitive content warning on it so that you don't see it unless you want to b/c it's a spoiler; if you disabled these then i guess it won't work so uh, if that's you try re-enabling them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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