alt Hacker NewsI found the piece interesting, once I worked out what it was about. I strongly disagree that taking time to spell out acronyms should be taken as a signal that an article is low level.
I found the piece interesting, once I worked out what it was about. I strongly disagree that taking time to spell out acronyms should be taken as a signal that an article is low level.
For people familiar with the field, it would be like if you had every article about hardware read “Intel Central Processing Units (CPUs) with modern Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) Random Access Memory (RAM) can be coupled with Nvidia Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to run Large Language Models (LLMs) that are stored on Solid State Disks (SSDs)”. Just rapidly becomes unreadable.
The acronym constraint was valid in a pre-LLM world but now you are perhaps 3 clicks in a modern browser from learning.
If I read an article that spelled out Random Access Memory I would definitely treat that as a lay article.