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I think this is yet another example of developers coming up with bad names for things. People seem to love using highly specific, technical terms for their projects which seem only vaguely/tangentially related to the proper meaning of the term.

I think it’s a way of borrowing the credibility attached to the term. But at the same time it dilutes the original meaning of the term and confuses people over time.

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And it just gives a shitty search experience. You don't want people finding math stuff instead when searching for your product and people searching for math don't want to find some unrelated software.

Founder here…have definitely seen this. Trying to find some of our users’ open source work on public GitHub repos to see what they’re doing can be tricky because it does pop up a lot of data science / stats work that’s totally unrelated!

Hey, one of the founders here! As Galen mentioned in the other threads, it wasn't our intention to borrow credibility or dilute the term. Rather we're big fans of Nassim Taleb's Black Swan theory, and to us founding a startup (and our first usecase in testing) both related to high kurtosis.

That said, I hear you that it's confusing when people need to distinguish between "kurtosis the statistical concept" and "Kurtosis the company"!

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