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hayAbhay t1_iz8xj9u wrote

Word2vec - the starting point for the deep learning boom with NLP (even though w2v is shallow) - biggest mover was that it shipped with pretained vectors and off the shelf code in addition to having the google tag

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csreid t1_iza2yzk wrote

Was it expected at the time that the embeddings would be so ... idk, semantically significant?

I feel like "king - man + woman = queen" is very unintuitive if you don't know about it already and it would've felt huge

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ispeakdatruf t1_izaajjp wrote

> king - man + woman = queen

this just blew my mind when I found out about it.

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