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comment by hogwild
hogwild  ·  3210 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is the meaning behind your user name?

My username is not taken directly from the adjective meaning "enthusiastic and out-of-control". It's the name (actually "Hogwild!") of a method and popular implementation for stochastic gradient descent on distributed systems.

When I use this handle on statistics boards, it gets a much bigger laugh.