NLP uncertainty researchers coin yet another term: anthropomimetic uncertainty
abursuc · x · 2026-09-08
A researcher pokes fun at the NLP uncertainty community's naming conventions: after epistemic, aleatoric and heteroskedastic, a new term "anthropomimetic uncertainty" has appeared in the ECCV/Uncertainty workshop sphere. The post mocks how the field's jargon keeps getting more anthropomorphic and harder to parse.
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