Ah, thank you for pointing that out. I guess I got confused in all the papers I've read on the topic recently. It's hard to get into. However, I would still no

Ah, thank you for pointing that out. I guess I got confused in all the papers I've read on the topic recently. It's hard to get into. However, I would still not agree that the comment-linked article explaining negative sampling really explains how word2vec works, well enough, or maybe I just didn't understand. Either way I recommend looking at this article as well if anyone wants to understand word2vec. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ronxin/pdf/w2vexp.pdf http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ronxin/pdf/w2vexp.pdf