Kandalf: request for review

[Jakob Petsovits]

While I personally don't mind app name discussions, I also wonder if kde-core-devel is really the right forum for this. I figure you won't get as much discussion in a GitLab ticket, but perhaps the friendly community in KDE Discuss has some good ideas?

But since I'm already sending a mail, here's my 2 cents:
- My earlier LotR+LLM+K suggestion named Kollum didn't make it. No worries.
- So, how about (KDE) Callum instead? It's a real name (human-sounding: check), still has that LLM reference without ripping off other model names (origin story: check), plus you'll forever have Reddit users tell you to rename it to Kallum instead (trolling the komrades: check).

- Jakob

On Fri, Dec 15, 2023, at 10:16 PM, Loren Burkholder wrote:
> I'm back again with more name ideas.
>
> 1. Alpaka. (h/t to Kevin Kofler for the suggestion) I've tended to veer 
> away from names such as this, because there is a derivative of the 
> Llama 2 model called "Alpaca". However, Alpaca is an open project built 
> by some Stanford researchers, so I doubt that they would mind a similar 
> name from us.
> 2. Orakle. This is pretty neat because it invokes the idea of an 
> "oracle" that distributes wisdom; even if an LLM doesn't give out 
> oracle-quality information, it's a fun image to have. The main problem 
> with this name is Big Red; while Oracle is spelled differently, they do 
> have AI products, so this could be a bad idea.
>
> As a runner-up, I have "Newton". While Newton AI is already a company, 
> I did like this because of William Wordsworth's quote about Isaac 
> Newton: "A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, 
> alone.” This somehow seems to embody the technology of LLMs to me.
>
> Please comment if you have any thoughts; if I don't get feedback on 
> this, Alpaka will probably win by default.
>
> Thank you and have a great weekend!
>
> Loren
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