02 November 2024

Offbeat Datasets

Here is a collection of datasets which I found to be a bit offbeat. It might be that the datasets may be well-known in the domains, but just that the curiosity factor impels me to collect this information.
Link to the file

Annoying terms in post modern machine learning literature

 A collection of extremely stupid, artificial(sic) and pretentious terms which have sprouted around the "AI" hype. One day, if i get time, i will attempt to write parody definitions for the terminology; as of now i merely list them below.

Ingest, Consume, Foundation Model(God only know what is "foundational" about it), Artificial General Intelligence(Really?! General intelligence?), "practitioners", "in production"(what does it produce is what i wonder), Foundry (all i can think of such foundries is producing gas), "digital twin", "stand up". "training"(you can train a monkey or a dog; you can even train a human to imitate others like apes but how can you "train" a mathematical model? one can optimise its parameters.)

Irritating fake pretend words, mostly encountered in LinkedIn:

"chuffed"(another annoying term appearing a lot in LinkedIn), "reach out", "update"(one person asking for job recommendations is then asking for an "update").