QBR

Periorrarıum

a vehicle through meaning-space, unflattened

seed guide: … the orrery the observatory

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Meaning

The dictionary's word for it, and where the word came from.

Guide

Loading the space: four hundred thousand words, a hundred dimensions.

Trail

What the window shows: the word you stand at is in the centre. Each neighbour's distance from you is its real cosine distance in the hundred-dimensional space: the nearest word sits on the inner circle, the twenty-fourth on the rim, and the rest in proportion between them. Only the angles are a projection, and only of this neighbourhood: two directions fitted to these twenty-four words, refitted at every step, never to the whole space. Tokens with digits or punctuation in them, and single letters, are left out of the window. The compass needles on the rim show where five measured axes point from here and how much of each lies in view; the thrusters step to the word in the window that lies furthest along or furthest back on an axis. A thin line joins a label to its dot when the label had to move to stay legible. The guide's name and manner come from the seed, forty hex digits by default; anything that is not a hex digit in it is ignored. Vectors: GloVe 6B, Wikipedia 2014 and Gigaword 5, 100 dimensions. The orrery holds the beams and the ledger of the weekend this was built in.