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Both Perplexica and Perplexity are bad names for a search engine.

Very perplexed as to who was the smart person that chose this dreadful name for the company.

Yes, it has another definition in context to information theory; which my point is, I used the first definition like a normal person would, which is commonly associated with...

'...a state of confusion or a complicated and difficult situation or thing.' - Cambridge English Dictionary [0]

None of them can ever become a verb that makes sense like 'google it'.

[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/perplexi...



Perplexity is term from information theory. It's one measure of the quality of an LM. I.e. how perplexed is my model? To an experienced researcher it's a unit of measurement like metres or kg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity

I agree that it doesn't transfer out of that specialised domain.


Eh. Still a weird name given one generally wants to reduce perplexity.

Might as well call it Uncertainty.


I Encartered the concept of verbs and I agree.


'Perplexity' is "through the complexity".


'Perplexity' is "through the complexity",

which is much better than "proplexity" (see e.g. "profanity") - where you never entered the complexity at all.




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