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Is "Moore" of the company's name is the "Moore" of Moore's law? If so, I wonder why one would name his/her company after their competitor's founder.
by curling_grad 5y ago
Is "Moore" of the company's name is the "Moore" of Moore's law?
If so, I wonder why one would name his/her company after their competitor's founder.
- ramesh31 5y agoSame reason I have a $25 pair of "Tesla" brand sneakers from Amazon. The Chinese are as obsessed with American brands as we are.
- throwaway4good 5y agoYeah - because Tesla is a classic all-American name, right?!
- hulitu 5y agoYes, today Tesla is a classic all-American name. I really doubt that many people heard about this obscure guy called Nikola Tesla.
- spzb 5y agoDepends on whether they've seen S12E04 of Doctor Who https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9354212/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9354212/
- GauntletWizard 5y agoEven when he was working, the majority of his output was as a naturalized American Citizen, on American soil. Tesla is as classicly an American name as Edison, Eisenhower, Truman or Monroe - It's an immigrant name from a country of immigrants.
- MathYouF 5y agoIn case anyone reading this is interested in specific historical information the origins of the listed last names in order are English, German, English, and Gaelic Here's a census of immigrants roughly around the time Tesla was working in the U.S. (1910's), showing the relative percentages from each region (a point of comparison which is not even accounting for the ones who came from the above regions before this time): https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1910/volume-1/volume-1-p11.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjavquz5Ir3AhVnDkQIHeYLDUEQFnoECBEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1rPaO2RoNqUfQJIMRElqx_ https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1910/... It's good to read the facts of history rather than hear trite historical narratives. In this case, it seems inbound immigrants from the Balkans made up just 1.6% in the 1910's. I'm pretty sure the intention of saying a last name is "all-American" is to comment on the relative statistical frequency of it in a population at any given time, since that is a name people in another country (like China) would associate and know because of their likelihood of seeing it. But again, a lot of people discuss historical narratives rather than historical facts, so the above poster is not uncommon in continuing that tradition of pushing a trendy idea rather than discussing facts and information.
- GauntletWizard 5y agoThat document (that you've poorly linked[1]) puts the percentage of British immigrants at 9%, Irish at 10%, of German at 18%, and of French at 0.9%. All those numbers are totally meaningless. The population of the US as a whole that was foreign born was 14.7%. That too, is meaningless. In the 1890 census, closest to when Tesla was naturalized, it was also around 15% [2]. I don't know what narrative you're trying to debunk, because 15% year by year for years and years is high. The UK, which is a top destination for immigration, has never been close to that number until very recently. [3] But really, what I actually find weird is that you're trying to debunk some narrative. [1] https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1910/volume-1/volume-1-p11.pdf https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1910/... [2] https://www2.census.gov/library/working-papers/1999/demo/pop-twps0029/table01.xlsx https://www2.census.gov/library/working-papers/1999/demo/pop... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-born_population_of_the_United_Kingdom#:~:text=The%20Office%20for%20National%20Statistics,resident%20population)%20were%20born%20abroad https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-born_population_of_t....
- MathYouF 5y agoWhat do you think is the relative statistical frequency of Balkan last names of American citizens relative to one's of English, Germanic, and Gaelic origin, and why? And how do you think that ties in with the idea of a name being inherently more likely to be known by foreign groups and associated with that country? I guess I understand your point though, that Tesla himself is very much an "American" and therefore Tesla is a household American name. Seems we've derailed very far though from the original discussion.
- GauntletWizard 5y agoMy point was that it's an American name because it's a part of American history. That's all.
- caslon 5y agoWhy not?
- qeternity 5y ago> the "Moore" of Moore's law? I don't know why I find this so funny, but "Moore's Law" is Gordon Moore, founder of Intel...
- throwaway81523 5y agoYa know, my first thought was Chuck Moore, inventor of Forth, and I wondered whether the GPU used Forth cores (stack oriented) somehow. It wasn't THAT crazy a thought, given the GreenArrays GA144 chip from Chuck Moore's company, with 144 tiny Forth cores running asynchronously. Moore threads, if you will.
- nomay 5y agoYes it is, the name is a stereotypical western name, which alone is preferred choice for Chinese brands hoping for the most hype and recognition, and the phrase Moore's law is pretty wellknown in China for geopolitial reasons, tho most of the people don't know and don't care about it's backstory.
- ascendantlogic 5y agoI feel like it has double meaning, both with "Moore's Law" and "More Threads".
- throwaway4good 5y agoI think it is kind of cheeky. You cannot use the progress in manufactoring technology if you insists on creating a single (or few) threaded computer like an x86-machine. To really progress computing your have to go massively parallel. In other words. Moore needs to quit his job at Intel, and go and make GPUs or AI-co processors, if he still wants to see computing power double every 18 months.