alt Hacker NewsThere is nothing confusing about it if you're at least a little bit educated. If anything, they are the least confusing, Ant drops the ball at opus->fable. For OpenAI, it's:
Luna, means "moon", smallest.
Terra, means "earth", bigger than the moon.
Sol, means "sun", the biggest object in the solar system.
Astra, plural of the word "astrum" which means "star".
Anyone who gets confused should be embarrassed.
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Why give an OpenAI answer when the confusion is about Gemini model names? What does Luna Terra or Sol have to do with Argon, Carbon, or Hydrogen?
To be fair, I knew all of those words already, and it never even occured to me that these names are supposed to be compared to eachother to indicate size or something. So, at least to me, it's not that it confuses me, it just imparted no information, because a collection of astronomical names and terms doesn't automatically indicate an ordering to me, it just indicates that nerds like naming their stuff after scientific terms and concepts, sci-fi stuff, etc.
I mean, this is what numbers are for. And not only do numbers indicate ordering(without having to do a mapping through severely atrophied school science class knowledge from decades ago), they can also convey meaningful size information using the wonderful technology of units of measurement.
OpenAI model names used to be confusing. He’s not talking about Luna, Terra, sol, Astra. They improved it a lot .
I refuse to walk among you rabble. You rabid mouth-breathers. I refuse I tell you.
The only models worth _my_ time are Σεληνη, Γη, Ἡλιος and Αστρα.
I don’t know what to tell you illiterate heretics other than you should know you are bad people. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
The truly αμεταπειστοι among us, the people _I_ hang out with, know these things by their proper name. Which is to say, naturally, 𒌗 and 𒆠 or, if you were even somewhat educated: 𓇹, 𓇾 and 𓇳 (praise be to Ra, the Great Unborn).
It saddens me to see HN has fallen to this level.
All of those are deducible, sure. The problem is that the pattern works only when they are all listed together. Person sees the list and can logically infer where they belong. But when I see the single model name detached from it's siblings, like "OAI releases new Terra 7.7" headline, for quite a long time I had zero idea where it belongs just from my memory. Was that a big model, a small model, a medium model - no idea. Now after a few HN topics I do remember the lineup and can place the new announce where it belongs.