Why should we let philosophy define technical terms for ML? Many words have many meanings. Welcome to the imprecision of human language.
As a slight tangent, I really hate this type of comment that inevitably appears on many HN submissions. Personally, I find it distracting when the main conversation happening on an article is a pedantic discussion on whether or not a word means what the author thinks it means.
As a slight tangent, I really hate this type of comment that inevitably appears on many HN submissions. Personally, I find it distracting when the main conversation happening on an article is a pedantic discussion on whether or not a word means what the author thinks it means.