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TIL that developing something like the Google Search ranking function is not engineering.
by H8crilA 4y ago
TIL that developing something like the Google Search ranking function is not engineering.
- LegitShady 4y agopsychologists and sociologists use statistics to evaluate their results, does that make them engineers too?
- kgwgk 4y agoEngineers of the human soul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineers_of_the_human_soul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineers_of_the_human_soul
- LegitShady 4y agoso you're taking classification advice from joseph stalin? Maybe reconsider whether thats applicable to the situation or not.
- lucubratory 4y agoThat's beautiful, I'd never heard of it before. Thank you.
- davidthewatson 4y agoNo, but it may mean that prompt engineering is a human science on the spectrum from phenomenology to scientism. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- LegitShady 4y agono it means prompt engineering is not engineering, thats just a euphemism used by those people to pretend to be doing something prestigious. They're doing engineering same way subway's sandwich assemblers do sandwich engineering - which is to say they aren't.
- davidthewatson 4y agoRight, like I said... on the spectrum... neither art nor beyond the apex of science as cult. FWIW, Bon Appetit may not be clear on sandwich engineering, but it is clear on sandwich architecture: https://www.bonappetit.com/columns/the-foodist/article/sandwich-architecture https://www.bonappetit.com/columns/the-foodist/article/sandw... I can certainly remember chefs in my city who met that standard.