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The flattering lie that lets two different things share a sentence.
means The quality of being alike in some way without being identical.
from From Latin similis, meaning 'like' or 'resembling' — the same root that gives English 'similar,' 'assimilate,' and 'simulate.' That last cousin is worth noting: the word for shared likeness sits right next to the word for faking it.
- math version
- cosine similarity measures angle, not distance
- brain bias
- humans overrate similarity to feel safe, not accurate
- legal weapon
- copyright cases hinge on substantial similarity, a fuzzy standard
- evolutionary trick
- pattern-matching similarity kept ancestors alive, also sees faces in toast