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    Simon ORiordan from UK
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    Fabulous, fabulous technology from Stanford. I really enjoyed reading the article until it mentioned the IBM effort. This is called 'SyNAPSE'. And of course, it's a cute acronym for some b@ll@cks or other. At which stage I lose interest. I mean, it's 2014 and I suppose that the IBM'ers are adults, so seeing drooling, puerile attempts at backronyms for naming a project just makes me want to choke. The IBM tech may or may not be cool. I doubt it. And I don't care.:mad:

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      Fabulous, fabulous technology from Stanford. I really enjoyed reading the article until it mentioned the IBM effort. This is called 'SyNAPSE'. And of course, it's a cute acronym for some b@ll@cks or other. At which stage I lose interest. I mean, it's 2014 and I suppose that the IBM'ers are adults, so seeing drooling, puerile attempts at backronyms for naming a project just makes me want to choke. The IBM tech may or may not be cool. I doubt it. And I don't care.:mad:

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      I need a link so I too can be annoyed by it.... :-)

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        Fabulous, fabulous technology from Stanford. I really enjoyed reading the article until it mentioned the IBM effort. This is called 'SyNAPSE'. And of course, it's a cute acronym for some b@ll@cks or other. At which stage I lose interest. I mean, it's 2014 and I suppose that the IBM'ers are adults, so seeing drooling, puerile attempts at backronyms for naming a project just makes me want to choke. The IBM tech may or may not be cool. I doubt it. And I don't care.:mad:

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        Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote:

        puerile attempts at backronyms for naming a project just makes me want to choke

        According to my experience, projects names made up of crap acronyms are much more likely to stick in memory than project named DS3875-T9-#.

        ~RaGE();

        I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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          Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote:

          puerile attempts at backronyms for naming a project just makes me want to choke

          According to my experience, projects names made up of crap acronyms are much more likely to stick in memory than project named DS3875-T9-#.

          ~RaGE();

          I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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          Duncan Edwards Jones
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          Yeah - and these things seem to go in phases. In the 1980s and early 1990s they were all Roman or Greek gods (Apollo, Pegasus etc.) Then there were physics related names (Electron, Quantum etc.) Now biological / neuroscience (Hive, Synapse, Cortex)

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            I need a link so I too can be annoyed by it.... :-)

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            The Insider is what you are looking for.

            ~RaGE();

            I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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            • S Simon ORiordan from UK

              Fabulous, fabulous technology from Stanford. I really enjoyed reading the article until it mentioned the IBM effort. This is called 'SyNAPSE'. And of course, it's a cute acronym for some b@ll@cks or other. At which stage I lose interest. I mean, it's 2014 and I suppose that the IBM'ers are adults, so seeing drooling, puerile attempts at backronyms for naming a project just makes me want to choke. The IBM tech may or may not be cool. I doubt it. And I don't care.:mad:

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              Oh, and also...[^]

              ~RaGE();

              I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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                Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote:

                puerile attempts at backronyms for naming a project just makes me want to choke

                According to my experience, projects names made up of crap acronyms are much more likely to stick in memory than project named DS3875-T9-#.

                ~RaGE();

                I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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                Simon ORiordan from UK
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                What about 'Neurogrid'? That's not a load of drivel.

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                  I need a link so I too can be annoyed by it.... :-)

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                  Simon ORiordan from UK
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                  This is it:http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2014/pr-neurogrid-boahen-engineering-042814.html[^] Apparently I get tons o sh!t when I try to supply a link. Hope it works. :sigh:

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                    Yeah - and these things seem to go in phases. In the 1980s and early 1990s they were all Roman or Greek gods (Apollo, Pegasus etc.) Then there were physics related names (Electron, Quantum etc.) Now biological / neuroscience (Hive, Synapse, Cortex)

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                    Simon ORiordan from UK
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                    Have you installed Hives? :^)

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                    • S Simon ORiordan from UK

                      Fabulous, fabulous technology from Stanford. I really enjoyed reading the article until it mentioned the IBM effort. This is called 'SyNAPSE'. And of course, it's a cute acronym for some b@ll@cks or other. At which stage I lose interest. I mean, it's 2014 and I suppose that the IBM'ers are adults, so seeing drooling, puerile attempts at backronyms for naming a project just makes me want to choke. The IBM tech may or may not be cool. I doubt it. And I don't care.:mad:

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                      Still in use at many, many companies. I don't mind them really as indeed it helps to memorize the content of the project (given it is done properly)

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                        Still in use at many, many companies. I don't mind them really as indeed it helps to memorize the content of the project (given it is done properly)

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                        Simon ORiordan from UK
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                        The best (and most ridiculous) Backronym we have was made out of the inventor's first name. :wtf:

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