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Both Perplexica and Perplexity are bad names for a search engine. Very perplexed as to who was the smart person that chose this dreadful name for the company.
by rvz 2y ago
Both Perplexica and Perplexity are bad names for a search engine.
Very perplexed as to who was the smart person that chose this dreadful name for the company.
Yes, it has another definition in context to information theory; which my point is, I used the first definition like a normal person would, which is commonly associated with...
'...a state of confusion or a complicated and difficult situation or thing.' - Cambridge English Dictionary [0]
None of them can ever become a verb that makes sense like 'google it'.
[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/perplexity https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/perplexi...
- robertlagrant 2y agoI Encartered the concept of verbs and I agree.
- rors 2y agoPerplexity is term from information theory. It's one measure of the quality of an LM. I.e. how perplexed is my model? To an experienced researcher it's a unit of measurement like metres or kg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity I agree that it doesn't transfer out of that specialised domain.
- Aloisius 2y agoEh. Still a weird name given one generally wants to reduce perplexity. Might as well call it Uncertainty.
- mdp2021 2y ago'Perplexity' is "through the complexity".
- mdp2021 2y ago'Perplexity' is "through the complexity", which is much better than "proplexity" (see e.g. "profanity") - where you never entered the complexity at all.