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Re:Gopher – A 280B parameter language model by marginalia_nu on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:43AM (#29486987)
To be fair, the name Gopher in tech predates GoLang by quite a few years.
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Re:Gopher – A 280B parameter language model by r3un1 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:47AM (#29487049)
I think that DeepMind being an Alphabet company makes this even worse. My first reaction was to read the blog post to see if there is a (go related) reason for the name choice.
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Re:Gopher – A 280B parameter language model by karmakaze on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:46AM (#29487026)
And pays homage in a way to the original as a fetcher of information.
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Re:Gopher – A 280B parameter language model by nimih on Thursday December 09, 2021 @02:22AM (#29494761)
To be fair to the GP poster, they may have been making a joke[1].

[1]https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9#issue-51275878

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