Re:Behind the curtain: what it feels like to work in AI righ...
by JohnFen on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:48PM
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> Which, again, is how people generally do that kind of thing outside of programming.
Yes, and with people, that's insufficient if you really need confidence of understanding.
There's a reason that lawyers speak legalese, doctors speak medicalese, etc. These are highly structured languages to minimize confusion.
Even in less technical interactions, when you need to be sure that you understand what someone else is saying, you are taught to rephrase what they said and tell it back to them for confirmation. And there's still a large margin of error even then.
This is why, whenever I have an important conversation at work, I always send an email to the person telling them what I understood from our exchange. In part to check if I understood correctly, but also so that I have a record of the exchange to cover my ass if things go sideways because we didn't understand each other, but thought we did.
Yes, and with people, that's insufficient if you really need confidence of understanding.
There's a reason that lawyers speak legalese, doctors speak medicalese, etc. These are highly structured languages to minimize confusion.
Even in less technical interactions, when you need to be sure that you understand what someone else is saying, you are taught to rephrase what they said and tell it back to them for confirmation. And there's still a large margin of error even then.
This is why, whenever I have an important conversation at work, I always send an email to the person telling them what I understood from our exchange. In part to check if I understood correctly, but also so that I have a record of the exchange to cover my ass if things go sideways because we didn't understand each other, but thought we did.