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They should have chosen another name, the acronym PGM already stands for Probabilistic Graphical Model and they overlap in possible usages.
by harperlee 6y ago
They should have chosen another name, the acronym PGM already stands for Probabilistic Graphical Model and they overlap in possible usages.
- brokencode 6y agoThis type of comment is pretty common, but never adds to the discussion. Some things are going to have similar names, and usually it just doesn’t matter. Take Rust the game and Rust the programming language. How often do people confuse them? I’ve never seen it happen. Never mind the fact that rust is also a compound that forms when iron combines with oxygen. In my book, it’s better to come up with a name that makes sense or is memorable as long as it’s not very confusing.
- steveklabnik 6y agoPeople confuse the game and the language all the time in Reddit. We even had a talk at RustConf a few years back about teaching an ML model how to distinguish them. (That said I agree with your post generally...)
- cmrx64 6y agoportable grey map? precision guided missiles? idk.
- zxcvbn4038 6y agoYou mean like they had to call the bug planet in Starship Troopers “Planet P” because all the other names in the universe had been taken?
- kzrdude 6y agoPGM is platinum group metals for me, just another naming collision.
- txdv 6y agoPGM index should clarify it :)