commerce

noun 6 senses

a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services

commerce is French for store, and every measurement below was made on that English word. Definitions come from English WordNet; Open Multilingual WordNet supplies the French headword, not a French definition.

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1 Your word measured

“he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod”

noun 6 senses 17 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
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This panel splits commerce itself, not store — 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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Dictionary synonyms measured

shop0.14 stock0.13 storage0.11 memory0.08 fund0.06 depot0.06 computer memory computer storage memory board storehouse entrepot hive away lay in put in salt away stack away stash away

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to store, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 6 of 17 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

storage0.33 shop0.29 stock0.22 fund0.15 depot0.13 memory0.09 computer memory computer storage memory board storehouse entrepot hive away lay in put in salt away stack away stash away

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to store, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 6 of 17 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

shop0.28 storage0.21 stock0.16 fund0.09 depot0.08 memory0.07 computer memory computer storage memory board storehouse entrepot hive away lay in put in salt away stack away stash away

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to store, 2 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 6 of 17 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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rare common
concrete abstract
casual formal
everyday technical
negative positive
mild intense
powerless powerful
small big
rare common
concrete abstract
casual formal
everyday technical
negative positive
mild intense
powerless powerful
small big
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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These sit just outside the closest neighbours in panel 3, and no dictionary lists any of them as related to store. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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

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

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