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Fair point in the article about SEO for technologies being an issue when trying to find help. "Lambda" has a good chance of leading to irrelevant results, even
by emilong 10y ago
Fair point in the article about SEO for technologies being an issue when trying to find help. "Lambda" has a good chance of leading to irrelevant results, even if there was a lot of experience with it documented online. It's a good reminder to try for high entropy names.
- VladimirGolovin 10y ago> high entropy names This sounds like a useful metaphor, but I'm unable to fully comprehend it because I suck at thermodynamics and information theory. Could you please elaborate a bit and include some examples of high-entropy names? (I'm asking because naming is hell, and I'll need to name three products very soon).
- khuey 10y agoThe Linux 'perf' tool is one of the canonical examples.
- ThisIs_MyName 10y agoThis should answer your question about entropy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) tl;dr If you use names that are similar to other names, you will convey less information every time you use such names. So pick a name which doesn't require additional bits to disambiguate. Note that English conveys roughly 1 bit of information per word.
- icebraining 10y agoNote that English conveys roughly 1 bit of information per word. I think that's per character, not word.
- Crespyl 10y agoMaybe he's using UTF-16.
- skybrian 10y agoIt's just a fancy way to say names that have rarely been used. (In compressed data, commonly used strings are represented using fewer bits.) You could estimate this by doing a search.