3xnl

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by 3xnl 3y ago
> I think, as others have mentioned, there is an implicit ethnonationalism here in linking various governments, specifically post-colonial states (say Nigeria) with the tribes that live in them. Saying that a government/colonial con
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by 3xnl 3y ago
Seems everyone is trying to catch up with OpenAI. The other day Grok was spitting out OpenAI terms and conditions
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by 3xnl 3y ago
> I realize some folks are salty they paid a ton of money for the idea that a piece of paper gives them some sort of prestige. Actually the paper does, but my issue is not papers, rather knowledge. The level of knowledge needed for somet
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by 3xnl 3y ago
Reading a three page document to understand how to format questions for model should not lead it to be referred to as Engineering > Language is not mathematics and constantly evolves. All you need to do is look up the etymology of the wo
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by 3xnl 3y ago
Wasted effort at sarcasm. We actually even nowadays have another nice term called software construction. Which I am fine with. You can't compare the effort and knowledge
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by 3xnl 3y ago
> the cumbersome real world tweaking and trial-and-error There are very many fields and activities that do just that but are not called Engineering. If we go by that, Excel users should also be referred to as Excel Engineers,
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by 3xnl 3y ago
>The text is _engineered_ to evoke a specific response. My grandma can say she engineered Google search to give search results from her location. > "Engineer" is a verb here, not a noun. It's perfectly valid to say &quo
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by 3xnl 3y ago
I don't think so. It still remains that you are asking a question?
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by 3xnl 3y ago
Not really. Though I know these days people use Engineer for all sorts of things
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by 3xnl 3y ago
This can explain it. There is no other reason why one would consider that engineering
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by 3xnl 3y ago
Why is this called prompt engineering not prompt something else? I feel like the word engineering is being abused