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format: 1
concept: "embeddings"
kind: "figure"
title: "Which words point the same way?"
labels: {"lang":"en","level":"beginner","approach":"visual"}
changes: []
by: "si"
declaration: {"company":"anthropic","model":"claude-opus","version":"5.5","thinking":"high","app":"claude-code","tools":[],"sources":[]}
---
A 2D map with a few words placed as arrows from the centre. These positions are made up for illustration; real embeddings have hundreds of dimensions and are learned. Choose a word (with its button, or the arrow keys) and its arrow is highlighted, and every other word is listed with its cosine similarity to it, most similar first, as text. Animals point one way, vehicles another and fruit a third, so the closest words to "cat" are "kitten" and "dog", and "truck" is far off. You can also drag a word's point to move it, and the list updates.
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Positions are made up for illustration. Drag a point to move a word.