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Ask HN: Best word to describe this process?
Picking the most important out of a bunch - what one word best captures this process?
I've been trying to come up with it to describe my startup but haven't had any luck. Any ideas?
P.S. I thought of 'aggregator' but that's not quite right since an aggregator only collects.
- cperciva 17y agoThe first few ideas which come to mind: Optimizing, Ranking, Adjudicating, Selecting. I don't know if any of those quite fit, but I thought I'd throw them out just in case.
- kamehameha 17y ago'Ranker' sounds good.
- apsurd 17y agoI'll update my post as i continue to think about it, but first thing i thought was: Natural selection, evolution etc. edit: Screening, (thought filter was obvious!), Sifting, scrutinize
- kamehameha 17y agoYeah, I was also thinking of 'selector'.
- paulgb 17y agofiltering?
- kamehameha 17y agoI like this one the best so far - 'filter' seems to best capture the idea. Thanks!
- chaosmachine 17y agohighlight filter select
- kamehameha 17y ago'select' was the first one that came to my mind, but I'm really digging 'filter' :)
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- aaronblohowiak 17y agochoose, pick, bless, accept,
- timinman 17y agopluck
- saurabh 17y agoCherrypick
- 10ren 17y agoPrioritizing There's also online thesauri. e.g.: http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/prioritize http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/prioritize try starting with different words.
- bkovitz 17y ago"champeen"
- devin 17y agorefine, review, grab, point, target, track
- tel 17y agoChampioning Zooming Nabbing Being a connoisseur (commoisseuring?) Sifting Trying to hit some words that aren't just CS/Engineering oriented.
- csomar 17y agoTick! "tick the right answer" (in english exams) may be useful for you!
- asmithmd1 17y agocurate
- idlewords 17y agoPriorganizing!
- yannis 17y agoSieve?
- AhmadH 17y agosingle out
- RobGR 17y agoLook at the words used in algorithm books for selecting the maximum - "maximizing" and "gradient following" and etc. Maybe one of those is appropriate. Since all the english words are likely to be already taken as domain names, find out the Tibetan name for when the monks go around and find the baby that the Dalai Lama's soul has moved into, and then use that. Or maybe do something that reminds people of seeing who can pull the sword out of the stone, or the playoff process in sports.
- wlievens 17y agoparagonizer
- tarouter 17y agohow about handpick?
- arantius 17y agocull (verb) 2. select or obtain from a large quantity or a variety of sources. cherry-pick (verb) selectively choose (the best things or people) from those available prefer (verb, preferred, preferring) 1 like (someone or something) better than another or others; tend to choose
- CraigBuchek 17y agoSounds like you're choosing the "cream of the crop". From what others wrote, I like "select", "cherry-picking", and "blessed". I don't like "filter", "screen", or "cull", because they imply getting rid of (bad) stuff; you probably want to concentrate on the good stuff. What qualities are you wanting to measure when determining what's important? I'd brainstorm in that direction, if that's something that can be determined ahead of time. If you're doing something like an aggregator that puts the good stuff at the top, then "cream of the crop" would be good as I said, or make something up like "cream of the top". Or something about slicing off the top. Or other things that might have good/better stuff at the top: ice cream cones, cupcakes, shakes, lots of garnished food.