This is a quick and straight to the point introduction to Euclidean distance and cosine similarity with a focus on NLP.
The Euclidean distance metric allows you to identify how far two points or two vectors are apart from each other.
Now suppose you are a high school student and you have three classes. A math class, a philosophy class, and a psychology class. You want to check the similarity between these classes based on the words your professors use in class. For the sake of simplicity, let’s consider these two words: “theory” and “harmony”. …
“Are you having your period?”. That’s the question the guy known as my father asked me when I was complaining of stomachache at around 1:00 PM, I was 18. I was hungry since I didn’t eat anything so far that day but he saw it as a great opportunity to remind me the thousandth time that I was a man.
This is how the modern man is supposed to be.
I realize that even “modern” parents are so focused on making their male kids “men” that they forget to raise them as humans. We can’t cry, this is too feminine…
Finally, you got it right. The world doesn’t care about your dreams or plans, it really doesn’t, exactly as you always felt like. This is in your advantage since now you know that if you want something, you have to work your way through it. There is no free lunch. Maybe a free breakfast once in a while.
Talking of free things, do you think your life is a free trial? Is it a free subscription with no engagement? Or is it paid and not refundable? Or refundable? Pay all at once or pay as…
You set the alarm before bed today secretly hoping it will not wake you up tomorrow. “Wake up!”. “No, don’t!”. You know your life sucks when you have more reasons to do the latter. The waking hours can be boring. You go to the classroom where you failed last year or, more recently, last semester. You meet the same person telling you the same story, the thousandth time. A story you cannot care less about.
Once again, you have to seat near the guy that bullied you yesterday. You’ve tried to get rid of him many times but people say…
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