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Re:Show HN: Basilica – word2vec for anything by thanatropism on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @01:33PM (#18347671)
Isn't the point of word2vec that embeddings are semantically meaningful vectors?
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Re:Show HN: Basilica – word2vec for anything by mlucy on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @01:51PM (#18347813)
Definitely!

In particular, semantically similar words are close to each other after embedding, so the space ends up with semantically meaningful clusters.

Our embeddings have the same property. If you embed two similar images, they'll end up closer to each other than two dissimilar images. (Where "similar" depends on the training details, but that's true for word2vec as well.)

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