> The bad news about modern neural networks is that they're enormous. The good news is that the enormity helps...

I always catch on misuse of enormity

It's now so widespread the misuse has gained despairing acceptance, as with "infer" for "imply"... but that doesn't make it any less wince-inducing.

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hydrolox 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

that's just how language works.. do you think that in your day to day life, you have never used a single word differently than how it was conceived of being used 10, 50, or 100 years ago?

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semiquaver 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Can you explain for the rest of us the problem with this usage?

I think neural networks are enormous, why is that misuse?

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emil-lp 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Merriam Webster:

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The original meanings that enormity carried related to great wickedness, and some assert that enormity should today only be used with such meanings, and that enormousness is the proper word to use to mean "large size." Despite these claims, enormity frequently refers to large size, either literal or figurative, though it usually suggests something so large as to seem overwhelming.

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throw-qqqqq an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Enormity has two meanings:

- great magnitude/size/scale of something - wickedness, evil, atrocity

Purists insist on the second meaning only, and will perhaps suggest you swap with ‘enormousness’ instead.

	▲	semiquaver 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Wow, insisting on archaic definitions of words for pedantic reasons sounds exhausting.