Rumengol
> No chemist wakes up and decides to call it “Steve” because Steve is a funny name and they think it’ll make their paper more approachable.
This happens every day. In every scientific field there is a technical name and then the name everyone remembers. Nobody will understand if I speak about ENSG00000164690, but if I say it's the Sonic HedgeHog gene then it starts to make sense, because funny names are memorable.
> awk (Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan; the creators’ initials)
I'd like to see anyone try to defend how using the creator's initials in a tool name describe its function. Unless you researched the tool's history, there is no way to know that.
Yet another "why the tools I use are the best and the tools you use suck", with a weird focus on naming instead of function.
I've seen the textbook analogy used, but to me it's like a very knowledgeable person reading an advanced textbook to become an expert. Then they say they're better than the other very knowledgeable persons because he read that manual, and everyone can start from scratch using it.
So there's nothing wrong with making a more efficient model from an existing one, the issue is concluding you don't need all the data that made the existing one possible in the first place. While that may be true, this is not how you prove it.