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Side note, DAE find calling them "normies" kinda icky? It's like straight outta 4chan
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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It's a "domain expert who interprets 'algorithm' as a technical term from their domain of expertise" vs "non-expert who interprets 'algorithm' with the meaning popularised by the Media in the last couple of years".
Both are right.
But when a non-expert uses the term, its quite clear what they mean by it.
Sorta, since those from the other side don't really know if that person is a non-expert or a domain expert from just a post, which is even more so here in Lemmy when it comes to Technical subjects because there is a much higher proportion of Techies around than most other Social Media.
Also, for a domain expert used to using the term "algorithm" for far longer than the common population has even heard it and started using it, it just feels wrong when people misuse it, so it's pretty natural to want to correct the way others use it.
Also it makes sense for the domain experts who have been using that word from well before it was coopted by the Media, to be the ones with the strictly correct definition of the word.,
Personally and from personal experience I think it's a thankless fight one is bound to lose - spoken languages are what the masses make it be, not what a few individuals are used to - but that doesn't make people trying to correct the use of the word wrong.