alt Hacker NewsNaming is hard. I still don't know what noul means. I don't mind calling a probabilistic boolean as boolean at all.
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reddalo • yesterday at 9:07 AM
Exactly. We already have "boolean", why come up with a new random name that doesn't mean anything?
I'd guess it's named for a Bernoulli distribution, which is how you model a single trial with a binary outcome, like a coin flip.