Why is everyone calling binary choices `noul`? Does this have some meaning or is it just copying Jev’s API?

The new OpenAI Decisions API calls it "predicate". Also calling the API "decisions" rather than "system one". Usually I don't like inventing new standards but I hope the OpenAI schema takes over. We don't need this hype terminology.

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hiimkeks an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My guess is if you pronouce this "nool" it sounds similar to "bool", and it's a slice of the name "Bernoulli" because the models generate Bernoulli distributions

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tchalla an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The same reason why they’re calling this System One thinking. Everyone wants to be seen doing different things and smart ones.

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dprkh an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Claude generated it and it stuck.

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haarts 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's from Bernoulli.

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fennecfoxy a minute ago | parent | next [-]

Huh. And here I was thinking the obvious thing is that it's a way to have "null" without it accidentally being parsed as null.

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jtfrench 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Interesting. Is that a unit he invented or is it just a reference to his last name that stuck?

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mijoharas 3 hours ago | parent [-]

From Bernoulli maps apparently. I still don't understand why[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49723267 (see parent for reference)

	▲	henrymerrilees an hour ago \| parent [-]
		A bit of a garden path path sentence... I believe "maps" in "maps to" was being used as a verb. So "noul"--short for Bernoulli as in the Bernoulli distribution--"maps to if-statements."