• smeg@feddit.ukOP
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    6 months ago

    I imagine this is how everyone who worked in cryptography felt once cryptocurrency claimed the word “crypto”

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      6 months ago

      Luckily that was only the abbreviation and not the actual word. I know that language changes all the time, constantly, but I still find it annoying when a properly established and widely (within reason) used term gets appropriated and hijacked.

      I mean, I guess it happens all the time in with fiction, and in sciences you sometimes run into a situation where an old term just does not fit new observations, but please keep your slimy, grubby, way-too-adhesive, klepto-grappers away from my perfectly fine professional umbrella terms. :(

      Please excuse my rant.

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      6 months ago

      I’m still mad that ML was stolen and doesn’t make people think about the ML family of programming languages anymore.