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This is nonsensical if you don't already have some existing notion of a relationship. These are vectors, not concepts. There a loads of operations that don't ha
by laxatives 10y ago
This is nonsensical if you don't already have some existing notion of a relationship. These are vectors, not concepts. There a loads of operations that don't have any intuitive notion, yet are well defined in the context of vectors and most likely yield useless results.
- snovv_crash 10y agoWell isn't that true of all abstractions? They give us tools that we couldn't use before, and some of those tools don't make sense. I mean, in real physics it doesn't make sense to add different dimensions, eg time and distance, but math lets us do that, because they are 'just numbers'. We need to know that dimensions can only be multiplied and divided, and dimensional analysis needs to be done afterwards to check the unit of the result. However, something like the dot-product here does make sense, since you can use it to determine similarities of vectors.
- coldtea 10y ago>This is nonsensical if you don't already have some existing notion of a relationship. The engine does have an emergent notion of the relationship, which is the whole point.