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I have noticed a trend of the word "Desiderata" appearing in a lot more writing. Is this an LLM word or is it just in fashion? Most people would use the words "Deisres" or "Goals," so I assume this might be the new "delve."


It‘s academic jargon. Desiderata are often at the end of a paper, in the section „someone should investigate X, but I‘m moving on to the next funded project“.


So „Future Work“?


Literally it means “things that we wish for”, from the latin verb “desiderare” (to wish).


At least in this instance, it came from my fleshy human brain. Although I perhaps used it to come off as smarter than I really am - just like an LLM might.




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