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pazimzadeh | 1 month ago

idk if OpenAI knew that Prism is already a very popular desktop app for scientists and that it's one of the last great pieces of optimized native software?

https://www.graphpad.com/

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varjag|1 month ago

They don't care. Musk stole a chunk Heinlein's literary legacy with Grok (which unlike prism wasn't a common word) and noone bat an eye.

DonaldPShimoda|1 month ago

> Grok (which unlike prism wasn't a common word)

"Grok" was a term used in my undergrad CS courses in the early 2010s. It's been a pretty common word in computing for a while now, though the current generation of young programmers and computer scientists seem not to know it as readily, so it may be falling out of fashion in those spaces.

sincerely|1 month ago

Grok has been nerd slang for a while. I bet it's in that ESR list of hacker lingo. And hell if every company in silicon valley gets to name their company after something from Lord of the Rings why can't he pay homage to an author he likes

Fnoord|1 month ago

He stole a letter, too.

intothemild|1 month ago

I very much doubt they knew much about what they were building if they didn't know this.