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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
RuthMalan ("Ruth — of systems & design") wrote:
“McDermott (McDermott 1976) famously complained about ML researchers’ and programmers’ use of wishful mnemonics (e.g., terms like understand or learn referred to ML), which he considered to be misleading both for researchers and for the public (Salles et al. 2020).”
— Naser, M.Z. (2025). On the Philosophical Naivety of Engineers in the Age of Machine Learning.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-025-10304-2
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