Well, I suppose for a sufficiently cool name, you could go like CoolName-MXNet for awhile and then transition just into CoolName. Like how Johnny Cougar transitioned into John Melloncamp back in the 80’s by transitioning through “John Cougar Melloncamp” and then eventually dropping the “Cougar”. Just sayin’.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 1:59 PM Rahul Huilgol <[email protected]> wrote: > Even changing the pronunciation is not an easy thing to do IMHO. As someone > who has been working on MXNet for the last 8 months, this thread is the > first time I am reading that MXNet is supposed to be pronounced 'mix-net'. > We risk losing the momentum even if we try to steer the pronunciation > towards something which is not popular currently. > > I agree Gluon is a friendlier/cooler name. But since we are trying to > present Gluon as an interface which multiple frameworks can implement, I'm > not sure if we should try to shift the focus away from MXNet and towards > Gluon. > > As far as adoption goes, I agree with Christopher that public benchmarks or > blog posts about how MXNet is better or more usable than other frameworks > would be worth spending effort on. Rebranding in a way to not lose the > existing momentum honestly sounds more difficult than this :) > > By the way, we had some talk of a new friendlier logo sometime back. What > happened to that? > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 1:43 PM, Aaron Markham <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Changing branding is hard as we already have some momentum under the > > current name. It's not impossible, and if someone has a fantastic idea > > and marketing plan for it, it's worth considering. > > > > Aside from that, updating the pronunciation could be useful if you > > like having those gif vs jif debates, but at least people would be > > talking about it. I personally like the sound of "mix-net" over > > "em-ex-net". Since we're just starting Youtube videos, I think it's a > > great idea to establish the pronunciation right away in those videos. > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 1:33 PM, Chris Olivier <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Just curious why you think it’s a bad idea — you didn’t say? > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:49 PM Chen HY <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > >> At least people needs a way to speak it. > > >> Just define its pronunciation as "mix-net" or "m-x-net" and use the > > agreed > > >> one everywhere helps a lot. > > >> Changing name is a bad idea. > > >> > > >> 2018-04-11 20:29 GMT+01:00 Mu Li <[email protected]>: > > >> > > >> > Agree that MXNet, the combination of Minerva and CXXNet, which can > be > > >> > interpreted as mixed-net, is hard to be pronounced. But rebranding a > > name > > >> > is a very big decision. We need a very carefully designed marketing > > plan > > >> > for it. > > >> > > > >> > A choice is that we can gradually refer MXNet as a backend, and talk > > more > > >> > about the frontend Gluon. > > >> > > > >> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:16 PM, Thomas DELTEIL < > > >> > [email protected]> > > >> > wrote: > > >> > > > >> > > FWIW Brainscript is actually a network definition language: > > >> > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/ > > >> > > BrainScript-Network-Builder > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > Thomas > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > 2018-04-11 12:13 GMT-07:00 Chiyuan Zhang <[email protected]>: > > >> > > > > >> > > > IIRC CNTK renamed to something like brainscript which does not > > seem > > >> to > > >> > be > > >> > > > very successful publicity campaign? > > >> > > > > > >> > > > Chiyuan > > >> > > > > > >> > > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 10:18 AM Chris Olivier < > > >> [email protected]> > > >> > > > wrote: > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > Should we consider renaming MXNet to something more > "friendly"? > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > IMHO, I think this may be related to adoption problems. > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > MXNet, CMTK -- both seem sort of sterile and hard to use, > don't > > >> they? > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > Tensorflow, PyTorch, Caffe -- sound cool. > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > -- > > >> > > > Semt ftom m ipohne > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Chen Hanyang 陈涵洋 > > >> Software School Fudan University > > >> +86-138-1881-7745 > > >> > > > > > > -- > Rahul Huilgol >
