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Chapter 0.6 — Dot Products, Projections, and Similarity

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Intuition

Dot products measure alignment between vectors and drive linear models, attention, and retrieval.

Formal definition
x·y = Σ_i x_i y_i
Readiness check
  • You can relate dot product to cosine similarity
  • You can explain why scaling changes the dot product