Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other

Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by m12k on Saturday September 05, 2020 @05:05PM (#24386834)

I was telling a friend about Bloom filters and he'd never looked into them, because he'd assumed from the name that they were some kind of screen space shader.

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Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by Izkata on Saturday September 05, 2020 @05:25PM (#24386952)

For a long time I thought the algorithm or data structure used by it had some sort of metaphorical relationship to a flower blooming.

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Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by sangnoir on Sunday September 06, 2020 @02:40AM (#24389472)

He wasn't assuming - there are Bloom shaders[1] are an item in Computer Graphics, but at least the name has intrinsic logic ("light bloom")

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_(shader_effect)

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