Dan Piponi on Nostr: I also take offense at the use of "condition on X" to mean "X is an input, or ...

I also take offense at the use of "condition on X" to mean "X is an input, or argument or parameter". It makes sense if X is a random variable but ML people use it for parameters. They'll even write stuff like p(x | y) where y is a parameter, not a random variable at all.