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comment by Dendrophobe
Dendrophobe  ·  3548 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A word is worth a thousand vectors - Word2Vec, and why you should care

It's just completely mind-blowing to me that it works at all. It's like

"Hey, here's a bunch of words and a rule for turning them into lists of numbers! If you do math on the numbers and convert them back to words, the results make sense!"

How bizarre is that? The whole "king - man + woman = queen" example is just insane.