No. 65October 2026

Distributed systems, language models and the machinery underneath

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Language models · 10 min

What Are Word Embeddings, Anyway?

Meaning is not typed in by anyone. It falls out of a prediction game played over billions of sentences, and the leftover geometry is what we call an embedding.