alt Hacker News> I think Claude Shannon’s spirit is probably proud to know that his name is now being associated with such advances. Hats off to Claude!
I didn't realize Claude was named after Claude Shannon!
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pfdietz • yesterday at 7:00 PM
It's like the diesel engine, which is named after Rudolf Engine.
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SenorKimchi • yesterday at 7:40 PM
And Claude had a collection of cycles, unicycles. Unfortunately the article is about something else altogether.
bread-wood • yesterday at 5:09 PM
Here I was assuming it was named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(alligator)
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teekert • yesterday at 9:00 PM
Last time I asked Claude itself also didn’t know.
NitpickLawyer • yesterday at 5:29 PM
Wait till you hear about nvidia and their GPU architecture naming scheme :)
Trivia: Claude Shannon proposed the idea of predicting the next token (letter) using statistics/probabilities in the training data corpus in 1950: "Prediction and Entropy of Printed English" https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/Shannon1950.pdf