National Science Foundation

noun 1 sense

an independent agency of the federal government responsible for the promotion of progress in science and engineering by supporting programs in research and education

National Science Foundation is Spanish for nsf, and every measurement below was made on that English word. Definitions come from English WordNet; Open Multilingual WordNet supplies the Spanish headword, not a Spanish definition.

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1 Your word measured
noun 1 sense 1 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
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This panel splits National Science Foundation itself, not nsf — a tokenizer does not care what language it is fed. It is the only panel here that does.

This is the tokenizer splitting text, not the model understanding it.

3 Synonyms, antonyms, and the AI measured
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This model splits nsf into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

Dictionary synonyms measured

National Science Foundation

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to nsf. 0 of 1 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

This model splits nsf into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

Dictionary synonyms measured

National Science Foundation

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to nsf. 0 of 1 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

This model splits nsf into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

Dictionary synonyms measured

National Science Foundation

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to nsf. 0 of 1 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Model neighbours are distributional, not dictionary synonyms. Two words can be close because they appear in similar sentences, which is why an antonym can outscore a synonym here.

4 Its personality measured
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This model splits nsf into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

rare common
concrete abstract
casual formal
everyday technical
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This model splits nsf into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

rare common
concrete abstract
casual formal
everyday technical
negative positive
mild intense
powerless powerful
small big

This model splits nsf into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

rare common
concrete abstract
casual formal
everyday technical
negative positive
mild intense
powerless powerful
small big

Scores are projections onto axes we defined from anchor words, not labels the model assigns.

5 Surprising neighbours measured
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This model splits nsf into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

These sit just outside the closest neighbours in panel 3, and no dictionary lists any of them as related to nsf. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

This model splits nsf into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

These sit just outside the closest neighbours in panel 3, and no dictionary lists any of them as related to nsf. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

This model splits nsf into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

These sit just outside the closest neighbours in panel 3, and no dictionary lists any of them as related to nsf. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

These are statistical associations in the training data, not the model thinking.