Comment by martinald
18 hours ago
The other bizarre word I've now noticed and can't understand is "pathological". As in "bug has turned pathological"
18 hours ago
The other bizarre word I've now noticed and can't understand is "pathological". As in "bug has turned pathological"
In old school ML a pathological solution is often a collapse of some kind due to an underspecified objective. Maybe one parameter explodes or the model predicts "0" for everything
I read this as "the code is working as intended but the bug is an artifact of the original design"
I genuinely have no idea what it is meant to mean in the context it uses it. Load-bearing etc is annoying but roughly understandable, some of the opus5 classics are completely out there.
I'm a native English speaker as well, I shudder to think what a second language speaker would do (even if they were very confident with the language!).
The new ones for me are adding extra terms like the 3 faces, to park at the door. (It’s 3 methods that block the thread)
"Latent" is another one, as in "latent bug" or in one particularly odd case "latent twin".
This is a term fellow devs have been using for years and years and my brain just cannot come to re-index its meaning. So I am immediately distracted by the context switch to sociopathic liars and related psychology.