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atkindel
3y ago
Your thinking here is pretty close to right, but it sounds like you may be a bit confused about the difference between "standard deviation" and "standard error". They're closely related, but it's very important
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atkindel
3y ago
Your intuition here is right on; in fact, the reason why we like embeddings in the first place is that they address this problem! When we have some sparse high-dimensional vector representation of a bunch of content, we often find that we a