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by baxinho0312 1833 days ago
I just think that the term transformer is overloaded with several meanings - electrical transformer, the cartoon, a transfer function in a NLP neural network and I have heard it used in ETL applications for the transform function. Not fields that are closely related, but still it might result in semantic confusion nonetheless. Similarly term translation has a completely different meaning in mathematics than in linguistics, e.g.