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Re:Show HN: utt – Universal Text Transformer by notamy on Monday March 07, 2022 @03:37PM (#30593007)
Good to know, thanks! I was originally considering a name more like "universal text finagler" but then I realised that there's already a well-known "UTF" (:
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Re:Show HN: utt – Universal Text Transformer by throwawybllion on Monday March 07, 2022 @03:42PM (#30593079)
uft: Universal Finagler of Text, Universal Format Translator? unt: unt is not a transformer?
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Re:Show HN: utt – Universal Text Transformer by chungy on Monday March 07, 2022 @05:49PM (#30594405)
UTF itself is already short for "Unicode Transformation Format" and certainly predates any usage of the middle word by ML projects.
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