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		frotaur 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Implement a Cosine Similarity Function in T... huh? This is just a funny joke on the way its named, what made you think I don't know about dot products ?

raverbashing 4 months ago [–]

It could be a joke, but the way you wrote it makes it sound like you didn't know it

> in ML people renamed 'the angle between vectors' into something as fancy-feeling as 'cosine similarity'.

Since cosine similarity is a name derived from linear algebra

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