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by lightlike 4169 days ago
Much of the wording on their website is annoyingly imprecise --

> N-Gram, the latter part of her surname, is a technique used in computational linguistics.

it's not a technique; it's just a name for a sequence of n things. Also, I've never seen the 'N' or 'G' capitalized.

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Well, Matt Casey and I thought it was clever, if not a bit funny; Amy Ingram, A.I. and Ngram in one. What's not to like!? :-)
Here are some people who are not going to like it: https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?firstName=AMY&lastName=IN...

[105 of them as I write this...plus their coworkers.]

I am not sure I would be offended if somebody called a service "Dennis" (probably the opposite). That aside, use Andrew Ingram instead, or name her yourself and move her to your domain (the most obvious premium product we have in mind).