alt Hacker NewsWhy is GP flagged? I was pretty confused about the title as well. This is the first time I have heard "LoRa" meaning anything else than the wireless protocol, and that meaning was further strengthened by talking about tuning. What is it with the AI crowd reusing long established terminology and then getting mad at people being confused by them usurping terms that have been used for a long time for something else? I mean I could understand that you could post this title on some forum dedicated to AI. But Hacker news is not that, and LoRa have had a another meaning that have been commonly known in Hacker circles for a decade by now.
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> I was pretty confused about the title as well.
As somebody who lurks HackerNews I think either advances in LoRA or LoRa are pretty interesting and have appeared here, it's not unreasonable somebody gets confused.
> What is it with the AI crowd reusing long established terminology and then getting mad at people being confused by them usurping terms that have been used for a long time for something else?
I'm going to start calling controllers with FPGAs in them "AI": Augmented ICs. Then downvote anybody that gets confused.
Because we have this discussion every single time LoRA comes up.
Also, neural networks and niche radio technologies are far enough apart that name clashes are to be expected and no problem.