Professor builds 'golf' game with word embeddings to teach cosine similarity
prof_g · x · 2026-09-26
A professor created a game/app to teach linear algebra students cosine similarity: play 'golf' by hopping from 'money' to 'poetry' through bounded similarity steps, with explore and hunt modes. He also observed that nearly all words in the dataset cluster near 90 degrees away from the current word.
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