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Maybe I missed this but I was surprised they didn't mention the connection to correlation. Cosine similarity can be thought of as a correlation, and some bivariate distributions (normal I think?) can be rexpressed in terms of cosine similarity.

There's also some generalizations to higher dimensional notions of cosines that are kind of interesting.



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