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176 points nxa | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.378s | source

I've been playing with embeddings and wanted to try out what results the embedding layer will produce based on just word-by-word input and addition / subtraction, beyond what many videos / papers mention (like the obvious king-man+woman=queen). So I built something that doesn't just give the first answer, but ranks the matches based on distance / cosine symmetry. I polished it a bit so that others can try it out, too.

For now, I only have nouns (and some proper nouns) in the dataset, and pick the most common interpretation among the homographs. Also, it's case sensitive.

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nikolay ◴[] No.43988786[source]
Really?!

  man - brain = woman
  woman - brain = businesswoman
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1. dalmo3 ◴[] No.43988972[source]
I think subtraction is broken. None of what I tried made any sense. Water - oxygen = gin and tonic.