There should be a way to designate negative vs. positive, which doesn’t rely on word similarity, since their meanings are, though on the same dimension, oppositional to one another. What kind of a mathematical function would represent this general idea? For instance, the positive would likely be addition/multiplication. You’re moving…
Noise is the Norm
The Noisy Hypernym A word is a commonality at the intersection of multiple meanings. A hypernym can be thought of as a superset of any given word. For instance, ‘animal’ would be a hypernym of cat, dog, walrus, and of course, dung beetle. Examples of hypernyms from wordnet: bay: {‘hypernyms’:…
What is the opposite of water?
The Infinite Monkey Theorem, Revisited What is the opposite of water? There is none. Or is there? Two points determine a line. You need one other point to make sense of this. One possibility is fire. On the fire/water line, they’re opposites. Another is air. On the air/water line, they’re…