Why? It’s actually a pretty accurate name given what the library does: identifies things — “targets.”
It feels like people have gotten way too sensitive these days. It’s either hyper-political correctness, pontification over “microaggressions” or just generally turning every single thing into some kind of conspiracy of capitalism. It’s exhausting to keep up with everything about which to be outraged or offended.
Everyone is supposed to be so serious all the time, especially in the computer community. What ever happened to not taking ourselves so damned seriously all the time? It wasn’t long ago that Thoughtbot changed the name of FactoryGirl to FactoryBot because apparently the name of a ruby factory library was potentially offensive.
Everything seems to require trigger warnings these days — including an image recognition library aptly named Sniper. It seems like liberal white men are leading the charge to out do each other as to how offended they are about the most trivial things. This community used to be fun, now it just seems perpetually on the verge of busting into tears at the slightest hint of something not perfectly saccharine and sterile.
Speaking of pontification and making mountains out of molehills, your response currently has more text than all the other replies combined.
No one here is "offended" by the name and you're the only one who seems "triggered", somehow connecting the reaction to liberal white men being offended by trivialities.
People are merely considering the implications of the name, which is a mature and reasonable thing to do. You're free to argue for its benignity and many of us would agree with you, but when you get up on a soapbox against "political correctness" (which has nothing to do with this), you're going to get a lot of eye rolls.
Re: "Let's be honest, the main use...going to be military."
While perhaps true, usually one finds a friendlier name regardless, in order to hide or reduce the perception of association with war. It's why we have a "Dept. of Defense" instead of a "Dept. of Offense" or "Dept. of War". I'm not necessarily condoning such a practice, merely making an observation of product and project naming practices.
Competition is welcome, deep stack knowledge from driver to model building is hard to come by (it's more than just matrix multiplies).
To compete with CUDA you need high performance drivers and people that can write them, and also be able to anticipate and keep up with the future needs of ML as well as hardware development.
The current title refers to the algorithm as "Sniper", but the name appears to actually be "SNIPER". According to the paper [1] linked in the repo, that stands for "Scale Normalization for Image Pyramids with Efficient Resampling."
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 83.8 ms ] threadIt feels like people have gotten way too sensitive these days. It’s either hyper-political correctness, pontification over “microaggressions” or just generally turning every single thing into some kind of conspiracy of capitalism. It’s exhausting to keep up with everything about which to be outraged or offended.
Everyone is supposed to be so serious all the time, especially in the computer community. What ever happened to not taking ourselves so damned seriously all the time? It wasn’t long ago that Thoughtbot changed the name of FactoryGirl to FactoryBot because apparently the name of a ruby factory library was potentially offensive.
Everything seems to require trigger warnings these days — including an image recognition library aptly named Sniper. It seems like liberal white men are leading the charge to out do each other as to how offended they are about the most trivial things. This community used to be fun, now it just seems perpetually on the verge of busting into tears at the slightest hint of something not perfectly saccharine and sterile.
We are making mountains out of molehills.
No one here is "offended" by the name and you're the only one who seems "triggered", somehow connecting the reaction to liberal white men being offended by trivialities.
People are merely considering the implications of the name, which is a mature and reasonable thing to do. You're free to argue for its benignity and many of us would agree with you, but when you get up on a soapbox against "political correctness" (which has nothing to do with this), you're going to get a lot of eye rolls.
Cars, household-robots, etc. all need to get around as well.
While perhaps true, usually one finds a friendlier name regardless, in order to hide or reduce the perception of association with war. It's why we have a "Dept. of Defense" instead of a "Dept. of Offense" or "Dept. of War". I'm not necessarily condoning such a practice, merely making an observation of product and project naming practices.
It turns out that this is actually an image recognition tool.
To compete with CUDA you need high performance drivers and people that can write them, and also be able to anticipate and keep up with the future needs of ML as well as hardware development.
[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09300