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A bit of editorial and cultural note from a US native, the subsection of the original article “Teach discrimination, not memorization” is better worded as somet
by rancar2 2mo ago
A bit of editorial and cultural note from a US native, the subsection of the original article “Teach discrimination, not memorization” is better worded as something like 'Differentiation' or 'Distinction' instead of ‘Discrimination’. In English, the word 'discrimination' can (and in this social context may) imply social prejudice or unfair treatment. I think this may have been a bit of carry over from the rather benign French translation of “Enseigner la discrimination" which I also see awkwardly translated in the paper as well.
- NopIdoN 2mo ago"Discrimination" is exactly correct. What you suggest changes meaning.
- rancar2 2mo agoThanks for the clarification. I’m very happily wrong here, and I appreciate the correction. This does emphasize from an editorial review that the double meaning can be distracting for someone who isn’t very deep in the terminology of this particular area, so it may still be worth rewording the subheading for a broader audience which will be interested in this model.
- joshhart 2mo agoDiscriminative has a meaning in machine learning that I think is relevant here. There are "generative" models like LLMs that are learning joint probabilities P(X, Y) and "discriminative" models like logistic regression that learn conditional probabilities P(Y | X)
- hamper653 2mo ago> In English, the word 'discrimination' can (and in this social context may) imply social prejudice or unfair treatment. In French as well. But it’s obviously not what’s meant here.