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Hacker and Crypto are semi-slang. Seeing a basic technical term misunderstood this way is just cringe. AI might be another worthy crusade but I'm not an AI pers
by orblivion 5y ago
Hacker and Crypto are semi-slang. Seeing a basic technical term misunderstood this way is just cringe. AI might be another worthy crusade but I'm not an AI person.
Honestly I don't think it's so much the loss of the word as much as the people are being mislead about its meaning. If they knew some of them might use a different word.
- nonrandomstring 5y agoHere's an idea. When I taught "Algorithms and Data-Structures" to first years, it seemed right to spend a moment explaining that it was a Persian (Iraqi) philosopher from Baghdad called Al-Khwarizmi that the whole thing was named after. They were really interested and totally latched on to that. Even if they forgot everything about binary trees and depth-first, students would use any opportunity to demonstrate a treasured factoid of knowledge that it was "An Arab bloke called Ali Charisma who discovered algorithms". Maybe you can throw that swerve-ball at people who blame algorithms on the government and say Al Gore invented them.
- orblivion 5y agoOh man that could really be something. Al Gore invented the Internet after all.