http://programmer.ie/tags/distributed-representation/ Recent content in Distributed Representation on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 http://programmer.ie/books/embeddings-from-first-principles/05-chapter/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 http://programmer.ie/books/embeddings-from-first-principles/05-chapter/ <p><em>Part II — Inside the Space</em></p> <h2 id="what-does-dimension-173-mean">What does dimension 173 mean?</h2> <p>Pull the 173rd coordinate of every vector in your corpus and sort. You get a list of documents ordered by&hellip; something. Occasionally a coordinate is weakly interpretable — &ldquo;this one seems higher for questions&rdquo; — but usually the sorted list has no human-nameable theme. Dimension 173 does not mean &ldquo;formality&rdquo; or &ldquo;sentiment&rdquo; or &ldquo;is about sports.&rdquo;</p> <p>And yet the vector works. Similarity search returns sensible results. The structure is there; it is just not living in the individual axes.</p>