On: Cosine Similarity

[pamelafox]

Those are typically called “stop words” and the article removed them for the example. Many NlP algorithms do remove stop words as a first step.

[ubutler → pamelafox]

Although worth noting that more recent techniques (eg, Transformers) need stop words for context.

[Havoc → ubutler]

Does it actually help though? I would think embeddings of cat and the cat would be functionally similar