I've been generally disappointed with how embeddings are usually explained - sentences like "a relatively low-dimensional space into which you can translate high-dimensional vectors" make them sound a whole lot more complicated than they actually are
This is my attempt at fixing this. I think embeddings are absolutely worth taking the time to understand - they unlock all kinds of really cool applications
Simon Willison /
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2023-10-23 13:45:40
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