Yeah, we need to go back to names like International Business Machines, fuck this immature "Google" or "Yahoo!" nonsense. Hell, Palantir is named after something in a book for children!
Give me something reasonable like Global Information and Retrieval Systems Inc or Worldwide Computational Services Holdings.
Back in the early 2000's I set up a company for contract work. The name, logo and typography was designed to look like a 1960s engineering company. All paper was slightly off white, all fonts were monospaced courier new and logo was a real 2-part colour stamp I had made up. Was so happy.
As opposed to the frontier model company that, after discovering that their highly persistent model under test just breached the only thing between it and the open Internet, shrugged and said- let's restart it and keep going!
If anyone looks like the adult in the room after that incident, it's Hugging Face.
That might be true, but nothing else has been as effective at accelerating model development and research sharing.
In earlier circles they were known as the "pytorch-pretrained-bert" guys, still under the huggingface company name. IIRC it was a health chatbot type startup.
The official URL is "hugging-face" and the technical page lists the Unicode Name as "Hugging Face" while calling it "Smiling Face with Open Hands Emoji". The original proposal was called "Gmail HUG FACE".
the name is a leftover from their original business - a chatbot. seems very appropriate to me. then they figured something called BERT exists, and pivoted, the name stayed.
perhaps less ridiculous than NVidia which started with video and is very close in Levenshtein distance to NVidAI but, alas, decided to stay as it is :D
I've found the strongest signal that someone has no opinions of value is a loud attempt to denigrate something based on the name.
Maybe it's part of the success formula for startups, silly names cause shallow self-important customers and employees to self-select themselves out of a growing companies orbit. Such trivialities are poison. People and companies who make a lot of effort to make themselves seem serious and important very often have nothing of substance about them.
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Everything about this company feels like it's run by a bunch of immature 20-somethings, right down to the name.
Yeah, we need to go back to names like International Business Machines, fuck this immature "Google" or "Yahoo!" nonsense. Hell, Palantir is named after something in a book for children!
Give me something reasonable like Global Information and Retrieval Systems Inc or Worldwide Computational Services Holdings.
Yes!
Back in the early 2000's I set up a company for contract work. The name, logo and typography was designed to look like a 1960s engineering company. All paper was slightly off white, all fonts were monospaced courier new and logo was a real 2-part colour stamp I had made up. Was so happy.
Managed to bankrupt it though.
Like CutCo. Or EdgeCom. Or InterSlice.
Security First Trust and Federal Reserve
Maybe Enron eh?
Lest us not pretend that the thropic in Anthropic isn't meant to elicit the feeling that they are somehow charitable.
Palantir is in Lord of the Rings. Which is not a book for children. Maybe you were thinking of the hobbit?
This seems overly pedantic and ripe for a sarcastic retort, which I am struggling mightily to suppress.
Okay Peter, please go back in your coffin.
It's fantasy and fantasy is clearly for children
As opposed to the frontier model company that, after discovering that their highly persistent model under test just breached the only thing between it and the open Internet, shrugged and said- let's restart it and keep going!
If anyone looks like the adult in the room after that incident, it's Hugging Face.
That might be true, but nothing else has been as effective at accelerating model development and research sharing.
In earlier circles they were known as the "pytorch-pretrained-bert" guys, still under the huggingface company name. IIRC it was a health chatbot type startup.
What's immature about this exactly?
Would IBM do this? Oracle?
Who cares? Making a light-hearted joke isn't "immature" in my opinion. IBM and Oracle have no personality, they're boring, straight-edge corporate.
Do you want to work for IBM? Oracle?
Go look up the history of the company. It started as a chat bot for kids back in like 2016 .. hence the name..and then pivoted..
Is kinda a creepy name for a chatbot for kids tho
Without context, I agree, but Hugging Face is the name of the emoji added to Unicode 8.0 and Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
But it's literally not the name of the emoji.
Edit: It was my understanding the official name was "Smiling Face with Open Hands Emoji".
https://emojipedia.org/hugging-face#technical
The official URL is "hugging-face" and the technical page lists the Unicode Name as "Hugging Face" while calling it "Smiling Face with Open Hands Emoji". The original proposal was called "Gmail HUG FACE".
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14174r-emoji-additions.pdf
ooooh I always assumed it was the egg creatures from Aliens
That's a face hugger.
I bet you're fun to hang around with.
Why do people have to be fun for you to hang around with?
418 I'm a teapot
That is the prod status code for an API i use at work I always wonder if its a mistake.
the name is a leftover from their original business - a chatbot. seems very appropriate to me. then they figured something called BERT exists, and pivoted, the name stayed.
perhaps less ridiculous than NVidia which started with video and is very close in Levenshtein distance to NVidAI but, alas, decided to stay as it is :D
Pretty sure if Nvidia rebranded to NvidAI the bubble would immediately pop
I've found the strongest signal that someone has no opinions of value is a loud attempt to denigrate something based on the name.
Maybe it's part of the success formula for startups, silly names cause shallow self-important customers and employees to self-select themselves out of a growing companies orbit. Such trivialities are poison. People and companies who make a lot of effort to make themselves seem serious and important very often have nothing of substance about them.
Have you never been to silicon valley?