[cloogshicer]

> Neither physicists nor ML researchers/developers are confused about what it means.

I'm sure this has confused a lot of people, especially beginners. Clashing terminology is one of the main difficulties in interdisciplinary work, in my experience. I don't think it's good to shrug it off like that.

[russellbeattie]

I'm literally learning this, or at least being reminded of something I had totally forgotten, as I read this thread. So yeah.

Words can have multiple meanings, but I think we can all agree it's preferable if they don't have multiple slightly different depending on context meanings. That's just confusing.