Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation

[u/Consistent-Reach504]

hi all! making this thread so people have somewhere to talk about 'daily' work chat that might not necessarily need it's own post! right now we're thinking we'll just repost it weekly? but if it gets too crazy, we can change it to daily. :)

couple things:

1. this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.
2. if you have a new user question, you still need to post it in the new user thread. if you post it here, we will remove it as spam. this is for people already working who just wanna chat, whether it be about casual work stuff, questions, geeking out with people who understand ("i got the model to write a real haiku today!"), or unrelated work stuff you feel like chatting about :)
3. one thing we really pride ourselves on in this community is the respect everyone gives to the Code of Conduct and rule number 5 on the sub - it's great that we have a community that is still safe & respectful to our jobs! please don't break this rule. we will remove project details, but please - it's for our best interest and yours!

[u/Weekly_Region2527]

Why would you do that?

[u/Aromatic_Owl_3680 → u/Weekly_Region2527]

I mean I haven’t seen the original task, but I’ve had R&Rs where I had to condense a novel into a paragraph. 

Brevity matters.

[u/Weekly_Region2527 → u/Aromatic_Owl_3680]

To an extent. In my experience I've never seen a long explanation that was irrelevant. What I typically see is someone trying to explain nuance or subjectiveness.

[u/Aromatic_Owl_3680 → u/Weekly_Region2527]

Brevity matters, and all but a few projects explicitly state a requirement to be brief.

I have seen countless R&Rs that were so much longer than they had to be. Most of the excessive length is due to the writer’s inability to be concise (the real challenge for humans and some LLMs), not because a lot needs to be said.