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roryirvine • today at 10:24 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Am I the only one to feel sad that the name means "Enhanced Representation through kNowledge IntEgration", rather than being a homage to a very famous 1950s random number generator?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bonds#ERNIE


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jojogeo • today at 10:49 AM

For me I see ERNIE as BERT's long time friend and room mate.

How do I look Ernie? ... with your eyes, Bert.

cubefox • today at 10:56 AM

It's a homage to BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), Google's influential 2018 Transformer model that wasn't autoregressive. https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805v2