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Meta/off-topic: I think that for many people the use all these cool-sounding "mathy" names - covariant, differential, tensor (flow), etc. may in fact be more ir
by Koshkin 7y ago
Meta/off-topic: I think that for many people the use all these cool-sounding "mathy" names - covariant, differential, tensor (flow), etc. may in fact be more irritating and confusing than justified to any meaningful degree.
- sgillen 7y agoWhat’s wrong with using mathy names to describe mathy products?
- whatshisface 7y agoIt's annoying when the products aren't what the names describe. It would be like naming a brand of facial tissues "Motor Vehicle" or a brand of computers "Apple." ;)
- ProjectBarks 7y agoCough... y combinator... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator#Fixed_point_combinators_in_lambda_calculus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator#Fixed_p...
- unishark 7y agoI like mathy company names. In fact, as a math person from long before it was cool, I love that others like them too now. I still own a few mathy domain names that friends warned me against using years ago when I was deciding on the name of startups. Maybe their time has come. What does irk me a bit is when programmers abuse math words. Like implementing correlation and calling it convolution. Or using Tensor to describe a nested array of numbers. Sort of like nerdrage over an inauthentic movie portrayal of a comic. But Tensorflow otherwise is just kinda descriptive. An iteration of the "dataflow graph" idea that operates on "tensors".