0_Intro_&_overview.ipynb

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        "# Introduction and overview of the project"
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        "## 0. Core motivation"
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        "It is all about the cognitive leap: what does it mean to **suddenly *understand* something** and how humans connect the dots.\n",
        "When I learn new things (a new for me field of knowledge) I examine it as follows:\n",
        "1.\t**What is it about?** – Of course, **in relations** to things I know\n",
        "2.\t**What is it like?** – Is it **similar** in structure and/or behavior to things I know\n",
        "3.\t**How is it different?** – How is it **special**, what are its own laws and structures\n",
        "\n",
        "And so metaphors appear to me as an extremely helpful tool for step 2: grasping certain features of a new domain in terms a well-known domain.\n",
        "The purpose of this research is creating a model trained on large corpus of structurally rich data (I start with Wikipedia), which **gets input like “having an argument” and produces an output “is like fighting a battle”**. The result will be based on similarities in the domains' structure (dependencies) and behavior of their subjects (verbs)."
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