A bit of editorial and cultural note from a US native, the subsection of the original article “Teach discrimination, not memorization” is better worded as something like 'Differentiation' or 'Distinction' instead of ‘Discrimination’. In English, the word 'discrimination' can (and in this social context may) imply social prejudice or unfair treatment. I think this may have been a bit of carry over from the rather benign French translation of “Enseigner la discrimination" which I also see awkwardly translated in the paper as well.
Discriminative has a meaning in machine learning that I think is relevant here. There are "generative" models like LLMs that are learning joint probabilities P(X, Y) and "discriminative" models like logistic regression that learn conditional probabilities P(Y | X)
Thanks for the clarification. I’m very happily wrong here, and I appreciate the correction. This does emphasize from an editorial review that the double meaning can be distracting for someone who isn’t very deep in the terminology of this particular area, so it may still be worth rewording the subheading for a broader audience which will be interested in this model.
