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Date: 2026-01-18

labels are less like hashtags and more like coordinate points in meaning-space.


Topic modeling is not about discovering “true topics”

It is about:

Producing a stable, useful partitioning of meaning that humans accept as coherent and actionable.

Topics are tools, not truths.

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