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I have a funny story surrounding the Eigenharp. A few nights ago I was having last minute doubts about the original name we had picked for our startup. At a ce
by acangiano 17y ago
I have a funny story surrounding the Eigenharp.
A few nights ago I was having last minute doubts about the original name we had picked for our startup. At a certain point, while brainstorming new names with a Dutch/Vietnamese friend, I came up with Eigenlabs. A quick search on Google led me to a site where weird instruments were being sold. "Argh, it's already taken, oh well". Fast forward two days, and I find the article I submitted here, on Reddit. "Hmmm, these instruments look familiar...". A quick Google search confirms that the company producing them is... Eigenlabs. What are the odds? :) baader_meinhof_count += 1.
- tfh 17y agowhat do you mean with baader meinhof count += 1 ?
- acangiano 17y agoHave you ever said "That's odd, I just learned about this obscure fact/company/place/concept the other day and now it popped up again". That's the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. So I increased the counter of my Baader-Meinhof occurrences. By the way, you'll hear about this again in a few days. :)
- gfodor 17y agoThat's odd, I just learned about the Baader-Meinhof pehnomenon the other day, and here it is coming up again. Bizarre.
- Tichy 17y agoWhere does the name come from? Baader-Meinhof is usually associated with terrorism in Germany...
- acangiano 17y agoIt's uncertain, but it's likely that whoever came up with the name, had one such episode while learning about the terrorist group.
- Hexstream 17y agoOh please. It only looks odd because you can't notice the millions of times it didn't happen. It's in the same class as confirmation bias, survivor bias, etc.
- acangiano 17y agoOf course it only looks odd. There is no magic to it.