I'd bet my house over a donut that a Spanish-speaking employee at Nvidia came up with that name.
As my friend put it: "hmm, CuLitho de envidia."
As my friend put it: "hmm, CuLitho de envidia."
> The joke implies that a Spanish-speaking employee at Nvidia might have come up with the name "CuLitho" because it sounds similar to the Spanish phrase "culo de envidia," which means "butt of envy" or "an envious butt." The phrase is often used to describe someone who is envious or jealous of another person's success or possessions.
The point is not that CuLitho is similar to "culo" (ass), as the similarity is not that obvious.
The point is that it's practically identical to "culito" (little ass, where "little" is typically not literally about size, but more of an endearing term - another translation could be cute ass).
The similarity is large enough that, at least in places where we use that term (not sure if it's used in the whole Spanish-speaking world, but e.g. in Spain it is) there's no way to read that name with a straight face.
I'm less interested in an AI trained on the droves of mediocre crap out there on the web, but would be super excited if there were one trained on curated material consisting of carefully crafted and authoritative answers like this. Or at least a way to lend greater weight to such inputs.
It's the possibility of it understanding what I'm best at, better than I do, that makes me concerned.
What will our John Henry moment look like?[1]
[0] for whatever definition you want to use for these words; I like them in these contexts, but it doesn't matter if this submarine is swimming or not
[1] I'm not sure if this was in a carton I saw as a young child, but I mainly remember a variation of the tale from Civilisation Beyond Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)
Source: I lived in the Caribbean and spent way too much time watching reggaeton and dembow music videos.
My culitho brings all the boys to the lab,
And they're like, it's better than a silicon fab,
We're laughing our way to the top,
With computational power that won't stop!
We'll be etching those chips to the groove,
Culitho de NVIDIA, making that smooth move!nCuLitho … I wonder how Spanish-speaking people would like that one. Or maybe that added letter makes it too long anyways and it could be shortened to… nCuLo
In my defense, I was trying to vaguely reference the Problem with Popplers episode of Futurama but failed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invidia
https://wccftech.com/nvidias-name-origins-history-roman-myth...
Culitho is so unambiguous in Spanish, though, that it's hard not to laugh.
Yes, Spanish can be that polysemic. As English does with let, get and set.
People who think of dicks when reading pico instead of 1e-12 are probably not your target audience.
AUDI étron is worse.