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If this isn't by Nous Research, may want to consider renaming (https://x.com/NousResearch, https://nousresearch.com/)

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I can confirm this is not a projected related to Nous Research in any way, just an unfortunate naming collision

Nous is the french word for "us". haven't heard of NousResearch

but they explain it is from the greek nous which fits better for ai

I was surprised when I learned about the Greek derivation. In the UK it's slang for common sense ("use your nous, mate"). I have to wonder how a bit of Ancient Greek ended up as UK slang.

Where in the UK is this a thing?

Probably less common today but honestly I'd be surprised if someone didn't know it at all. Try asking someone over fifty in England what "use your nous" means.

A quick dip into Google Books throws back this from the works of George Garrett, a Liverpool-born working class writer who wrote about being a merchant seaman during World War I: "An older fireman stopped them. 'Use your nous,' he sang out. 'You can't pile into another room and waken all hands for the sake of an individual."

Or this from The Spectator in the 80s: "Use your nous, you silly cow"

https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-British-slang-word-nous-...

Eton probably.

Actually when I was bouncing ideas off Claude it was suggested with the alternative spelling of noos. Then I can keep the concept and only have have one letter to change

And there is https://nous.technology/, known for their smart plugs.

And if it is is by Nous Research we there definitely needs to be clearer branding as this is very confusing.

If OP is not Nous Research (which I suspect to be the case) then a name change is a must as they're already a fairly well established company in the LLM space (surprised OP isn't aware of the name collision already). It's a bit similar to creating a new library with the "Smiling Face with Open Hands emoji"[0] as your logo

0. https://emojipedia.org/hugging-face

When I first picked the name, after a chat with Claude, I hadn't come across Nous Research back then, and they didn't show up Googling for just nous.

I see a bit of reuse of words in other various llm related projects.

Langchain/langfuse/langflow

Llama/ollama/llamaindex

so I hadn't been too worried about it when became aware of them.

That's what Show HN is for, getting feedback, and a name changed now would be easy before I post it around more.

Never heard of you

I'm not affiliated with Nous Research in anyway, but do work in the LLM space and at least in this community it's a fairly well known org. Since this project also is in that space I was just adding support for parent's observation.

Yeah but in the LLM/AI space, everyone who isn’t total newbie knows Nous Research

And this framework kinda does fall within that space

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