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For those commenting on the name: weka is not only the name of a storage company and some machine-learning software, but originally a flightless bird native to
by notacoward 8y ago
For those commenting on the name: weka is not only the name of a storage company and some machine-learning software, but originally a flightless bird native to Aotearoa / New Zealand.
http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/weka http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/weka
Not to be confused with weta, which is a large scary looking (but actually pretty harmless) insect in the grasshopper family and also the name of another company that did most of the digital effects for the LotR movies.
- regularfry 8y agoWeta Digital (https://www.wetafx.co.nz/ https://www.wetafx.co.nz/) are named after the grasshopper, not the bird.