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by hitchstory 1117 days ago
The worst was "leading indicator". It was used initially to mean inputs to a machine learning model, but it organically spread to refer to almost any form of data at any point in the ML pipeline.
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That's an interesting example. Also, the same pattern has happened to other terms as well: 1. At first, a quite specific meaning. 2. As time goes on, the same term gets used for more & more things.