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_"You can also increase or decrease the distance you peer into sentence space from your initial location; as you increase it, the results get more diverse. [...

_"You can also increase or decrease the distance you peer into sentence space from your initial location; as you increase it, the results get more diverse. [...] What you’re seeing is the transition from the richness of arbitrary text to the regularity of this particular sentence space."_ There's a huge gap in here. Mr Sloan has worked on the idea of a gradient in language. He's worked to realate the craft of colors to sentence creativity. But color craft on a computer is just an abstraction for picking colors out of the gammut of screen displays. And this gammut is a subset of the visible spectrum, which is a subset of the electromatnetic spectrum. He didn't work at all on how this project relates to language itself. I guess I have to read the papers. What exactly is 'sentence space'?

YeGoblynQueenne 9y ago
>> What exactly is 'sentence space'? It's a multi-dimensional cartesian space where each sentence occupies a single point (i.e. a set of coordinates). The point is that once you have such a sentence space, you can then do geometry over it. Like calculate distance between sentences etc. The hope is of course that the sentence space is constrtucted so as to encode the semantic relation between sentences, so for instance sentences that are close to each other encode similar meaning etc.
- xtiansimon 9y ago
  Sorry if I wasn't clear--What's in there? You've mentioned 'each sentence' and a 'multi-dimensional cartesian space', what _constitutes_ the 'space'? Each sentence from where? What determines a set of words is a sentence? Is it a WordNet space? Is it a sampling from a corpus? A neural network trained on what? the internet? One tree? What's the forest? Old growth? Jungle? Alpine above the tree line?!
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  - YeGoblynQueenne 9y ago
    Ah, OK, you were joking. Sorry for missing it, I had my humour removed at birth :)
    - xtiansimon 9y ago
      The glass is half-empty, or half-full is not a joke, but a an ambiguity of language. “Sentence space” could refer to both the sentence itself, numerically quantified, and the context which makes a sentence grammatically correct, composed of senseable words which go together. Colors don’t walk. Right? My response is just a comment, but even if you disagree with my example, the question remains—what constitutes the space the alternatives are drawn from?

YeGoblynQueenne 9y ago

>> What exactly is 'sentence space'? It's a multi-dimensional cartesian space where each sentence occupies a single point (i.e. a set of coordinates). The point is that once you have such a sentence space, you can then do geometry over it. Like calculate distance between sentences etc. The hope is of course that the sentence space is constrtucted so as to encode the semantic relation between sentences, so for instance sentences that are close to each other encode similar meaning etc.

xtiansimon 9y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear--What's in there? You've mentioned 'each sentence' and a 'multi-dimensional cartesian space', what _constitutes_ the 'space'? Each sentence from where? What determines a set of words is a sentence? Is it a WordNet space? Is it a sampling from a corpus? A neural network trained on what? the internet? One tree? What's the forest? Old growth? Jungle? Alpine above the tree line?!
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- YeGoblynQueenne 9y ago
  Ah, OK, you were joking. Sorry for missing it, I had my humour removed at birth :)
  - xtiansimon 9y ago
    The glass is half-empty, or half-full is not a joke, but a an ambiguity of language. “Sentence space” could refer to both the sentence itself, numerically quantified, and the context which makes a sentence grammatically correct, composed of senseable words which go together. Colors don’t walk. Right? My response is just a comment, but even if you disagree with my example, the question remains—what constitutes the space the alternatives are drawn from?