[harperlee]

They should have chosen another name, the acronym PGM already stands for Probabilistic Graphical Model and they overlap in possible usages.

[brokencode]

This type of comment is pretty common, but never adds to the discussion. Some things are going to have similar names, and usually it just doesn’t matter.

Take Rust the game and Rust the programming language. How often do people confuse them? I’ve never seen it happen. Never mind the fact that rust is also a compound that forms when iron combines with oxygen.

In my book, it’s better to come up with a name that makes sense or is memorable as long as it’s not very confusing.

[steveklabnik]

People confuse the game and the language all the time in Reddit. We even had a talk at RustConf a few years back about teaching an ML model how to distinguish them.

(That said I agree with your post generally...)

[cmrx64]

portable grey map? precision guided missiles? idk.

[kzrdude]

PGM is platinum group metals for me, just another naming collision.

[zxcvbn4038]

You mean like they had to call the bug planet in Starship Troopers “Planet P” because all the other names in the universe had been taken?

[pram]

I thought it was called Klendathu

[ant6n]

That would probably be a good name for some programming project, I doubt the Name is taken. Then again, we all now Klendathu is riddled with bugs...

[txdv]

PGM index should clarify it :)