Saleh Kayyali
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- The Illustrated Word2vec2 savers
- Action mapping headquarters - Training design - Cathy Moore1 savers
- THE BABY AND THE BAATH WATER1 savers
- So Long Sucker1 savers
- Game theory3 savers
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e Baath vision might really spread across the Arab world. Nasser was furious - he used everyone's favourite political insult. He called them "fascists".
THE BABY AND THE BAATH WATERIn 1968 a CIA agent called Miles Copeland wrote a book called 'The Game of Nations' that revealed what went on in 1947. Back then Copeland was part of a mangement consulting team in Washington who were working out how America should contain the threat of communism in the Middle East, now the old European Empires had gone. This was before the CIA existed, and Copeland describes how they got together an odd group of diplomats, secret agents left over from the war, advertising men from Madison Avenue, and "pipe-smoking owls" (which is what intellectuals were called in those days).
THE BABY AND THE BAATH WATERIn this post, we’ll go over the concept of embedding, and the mechanics of generating embeddings with word2vec. But let’s start with an example to get familiar with using vectors to represent things. Did you know that a list of five numbers (a vector) can represent so much about your personality?
The Illustrated Word2vec