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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by mnky9800n on Monday January 13, 2025 @09:12AM (#42683579)
What were you doing that was cargo culting?
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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by splwjs on Monday January 13, 2025 @09:25AM (#42683698)
social engineer: actually here's a personal anecdote loaded with goodguy words that inform you about how the thing I want you to think is correct.

engineer: interesting. what problems has it helped you solve

social engineer:

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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by mnky9800n on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:40AM (#42684621)
it's true. i just like knowing how things work.
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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by sandesh247 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:05AM (#42695599)
Our team was refactoring the codebase to follow ML pipeline best practices, but not enough attention had been paid to problem/task formulation, label quality etc.
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