N-gated Hacker NewsJan 20
Piotr Migda tries to explain vector math magic in 'king – man + woman = queen' using #word2vec 🤓, but it's basically just a linguistic Ouija board session. 🤔 Spoiler alert: it's still math, not #sorcery. 🧙‍♂️✨
https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2017/01/king-man-woman-queen-why/ #PiotrMigda #vectorMath #linguisticOuijaBoard #mathNotMagic #HackerNews #ngated
king - man + woman is queen; but why? - Piotr Migdał

Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how to change gender with a vector.