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<h1 class="p-name">Initially, my machines were named after classical philosophers and mathematicians (starting with…</h1>
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My girlfriend used to name her machines after historical figures she was indirectly related to (Isaac for Isaac Newton, Tesla for Nikola…
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<section name="a702" class="section section--body section--first section--last"><div class="section-divider"><hr class="section-divider"></div><div class="section-content"><div class="section-inner sectionLayout--insetColumn"><p name="73b8" id="73b8" class="graf graf--p graf--leading">Initially, my machines were named after classical philosophers and mathematicians (starting with Euclid, after the computer in Pi, but then proceeding to Plato, Aristotle, and Archimedes). However, Plato & Aristotle died almost simultaneously, and I switched to a non-classical schema focusing on mathematicians with Descartes, Liebniz, and Hume. Currently, my network consists of: Vonneumann (the server), Erdos (my work machine), Hilbert (my smartphone — because Hilbert is associated with both infinite hotels and space-filling curves), and Agrippa (the chromecast). Retired names include Godel (the PDA), Cantor (a now-dead server), and Conway (a laptop, named after John Conway of Game of Life fame).</p><p name="768e" id="768e" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p graf--trailing">My girlfriend used to name her machines after historical figures she was indirectly related to (Isaac for Isaac Newton, Tesla for Nikola Tesla — both of whom died virgins but who are great^n uncles). She now names devices in her network after characters from Ghost in the Shell (Motoko, Bateau…)</p></div></div></section>
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<footer><p>By <a href="https://medium.com/@enkiv2" class="p-author h-card">John Ohno</a> on <a href="https://medium.com/p/3d26b9fc9468"><time class="dt-published" datetime="2015-05-21T13:56:53.030Z">May 21, 2015</time></a>.</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/@enkiv2/initially-my-machines-were-named-after-classical-philosophers-and-mathematicians-starting-with-3d26b9fc9468" class="p-canonical">Canonical link</a></p><p>Exported from <a href="https://medium.com">Medium</a> on January 21, 2025.</p></footer></article></body></html>