Naming is hard. I still don't know what noul means. I don't mind calling a probabilistic boolean as boolean at all.
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.
Your comment released me from the frustratingly puzzled feeling I had at what they were aiming at with "noul"... that totally makes sense.
Thank you! That makes sense. It's how I'll remember it now.
And "system one".
Typesafe’s biggest blunder by far, they could have at least set the standard and left their mark that way.
When I first saw the launch with "System One" and "noul" I already knew they had some marketing person pushing this internally because you can swap it all for "classifier" and "boolean".