One slur to rule them all

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Hi what the fuck does this mean

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  • oneser@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think the x-axis labels are wrong. Cosine similarity is used to compare vectors in maths. 1 would mean the vectors are going in the same direction and 0 would mean they are going 90° to each other and -1 is opposite.

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    • VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      While it seems you’re on to something with the x-axis, I do not believe that was the question. My interpretation, that I share, is wtf am I looking at? Haha

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    • starik@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      So the x-axis should be the same as the y-axis in this case?

      How do you calculate the cosine of a slur? Is that the joke?

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• calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Why would you make a post about slurs and then censor all of them.

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• Engywuck@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t get it at all.

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Imagine modeling the components of a word mathematically. Each word has a value in some number of dimensions, like maybe how negative the word is, or how much it has to do with fruit or something.

    You’d be able to calculate a set of eigenvectors to describe each dimension, basically unit vectors. You could have an eigen-name or eigen-compliment, basically just a word that other names or compliments could be expressed in units of that word.

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    • Engywuck@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Ok, I’m a physicist so math is fine. I just couldn’t get the diagram. Thanks!

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• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Is the first one ‘South Mexican’?

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  • breezeblock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Spic Chink Fag Cunt Kyke Jap

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    • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I haven’t heard anyone use “Jap” outside my grandfather’s generation — and he fought a fucking war against them so no surprise he had some big feels there. But he’s also been dead about 25 years and I’ve never heard the word since.

      But also I don’t hang out with racists, so what do I know.

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    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      How have I lived with a Jewish family all my life and never heard ‘Kyke’, yet I was well aware of ‘Faggot’ after only knowing about gay people for much less time?

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    • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Honestly most of these are out of fashion anyway

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Derrick’s “Spelling Bee” suggests cell D3 should be dominant.

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• FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Can someone expand these asterisks?

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