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Shock horror: different subfields have different terminology.

• mort96 1mo ago
  I mean it's not really different terminology, matrices are order 2 tensors so we're all in agreement that they're technically doing math on tensors. It's just weird to call it tensors when you exclusively operate on matrices.
  • philipallstar 1mo ago
    Headcanon: tensor just sounded cooler - and it is cooler - when Tensorflow was invented, and it's stuck around.
    • eru 1mo ago
      You are probably right. I blame the Matrix movies for this: they made matrix sound cool for a while, and then oversaturation lead to it being less cool.
      • philipallstar 1mo ago
        Hah yes I almost wrote that as well. I think it might be exactly that.