top | item 36393783 (no title) echeese | 2 years ago Elo isn't an acronym/initialism. discuss order hn newest bee_rider|2 years ago It is better if you just imagine that we’re ranking things in order of similarity to ELO (electric light orchestra). craz8|2 years ago Twitter: -100; Mastodon: zero; Bluesky: 5,000Yup, this could work load replies (1) zuminator|2 years ago No need to be coy; it's named after Arpad Elo, the chess player who came up with this general ranking method. ftxbro|2 years ago at some point social media posts will put mistakes like this just to bait engagement nameistaken|2 years ago Cool story bro. TechBro8615|2 years ago While we're on the subject, neither is TOR. xcdzvyn|2 years ago Tor is an acronym for "The Onion Router", it just isn't capitalised as such.[0] https://support.torproject.org/about/why-is-it-called-tor/[1] https://www.britannica.com/technology/Tor-encryption-network
bee_rider|2 years ago It is better if you just imagine that we’re ranking things in order of similarity to ELO (electric light orchestra). craz8|2 years ago Twitter: -100; Mastodon: zero; Bluesky: 5,000Yup, this could work load replies (1)
zuminator|2 years ago No need to be coy; it's named after Arpad Elo, the chess player who came up with this general ranking method.
ftxbro|2 years ago at some point social media posts will put mistakes like this just to bait engagement
TechBro8615|2 years ago While we're on the subject, neither is TOR. xcdzvyn|2 years ago Tor is an acronym for "The Onion Router", it just isn't capitalised as such.[0] https://support.torproject.org/about/why-is-it-called-tor/[1] https://www.britannica.com/technology/Tor-encryption-network
xcdzvyn|2 years ago Tor is an acronym for "The Onion Router", it just isn't capitalised as such.[0] https://support.torproject.org/about/why-is-it-called-tor/[1] https://www.britannica.com/technology/Tor-encryption-network
bee_rider|2 years ago
craz8|2 years ago
Yup, this could work
zuminator|2 years ago
ftxbro|2 years ago
nameistaken|2 years ago
TechBro8615|2 years ago
xcdzvyn|2 years ago
[0] https://support.torproject.org/about/why-is-it-called-tor/
[1] https://www.britannica.com/technology/Tor-encryption-network