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A bit off topic, but when did "compute" become a noun? It is extremely grating to my ears.
by feanaro 3y ago
A bit off topic, but when did "compute" become a noun? It is extremely grating to my ears.
- synergy20 3y agoit's pretty common these days due to AI with GPU-alike chips.
- EarthLaunch 3y agoI first recall it from the rise of AWS at least. "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)" launched 2006 [0]. Google Trends [1]. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud 1: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Compute&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Compute&...
- overstay8930 3y agoIt was a thing in Deep Space Nine (1999) so either the lingo was really on point or it's just something that has fallen in and out of favor.
- ip26 3y agoI don’t know the reason, but I suspect you can reason it out.
- greggsy 3y agoI hear, read and use the term on a daily basis, and I would say that it emerged in my workplaces around five years ago, and came into common use around two.