+1 

-Ayush

> On 11 Apr 2025, at 6:35 AM, Julian Hyde <jhyde.apa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you, Stefan!
> 
> Great to get that on the record. Plus, I love hearing projects’ origin 
> stories.
> 
> Good luck in incubation!
> 
> Julian
> 
> 
>> On Apr 10, 2025, at 5:59 PM, Stefan Krawczyk <stefan.krawc...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Fair question!
>> 
>> Hamilton was named from the confluence of three things:
>> - the team it was originally built for was the F.E.D. (forecasting
>> estimation and demand team) --> Alexander Hamilton created the Federal
>> reserve, or "FED" for short.
>> - the team was modeling the world, i.e. the business -> Hamiltonian
>> concepts there in physics.
>> - we're doing some graph theory -> Hamiltonian concepts in graph theory.
>> Q.E.D. Hamilton 😆.
>> Since then, I have also learned there was a Hamilton at NASA on software
>> correctness, and there is Lewis Hamilton the F1 driver who wins via
>> consistent lap/iteration speed, both of which would also fit the project's
>> goals 😂 ...
>> 
>> Hamilton can't do everything, so we created another framework to handle the
>> things it can't do. We weren't sure whether it was a competitor or
>> complement. So we went with the tongue-and-cheek name of Burr. A few
>> more details
>> here
>> <https://github.com/dagworks-inc/burr?tab=readme-ov-file#-why-the-name-burr>,
>> but we seen them working harmoniously together rather than head on
>> competing. It also happens to be a good way to remember the projects (if
>> you know your American history).
>> 
>> HTH. Cheers,
>> 
>> Stefan
>> 
>>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM Julian Hyde <jhyde.apa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> It doesn’t affect their entry into the Incubator, but I am curious what
>>> motivated the names ‘Hamilton’ and ‘Burr’.
>>> 
>>> Especially when our history books and broadway musicals tell us that the
>>> one murdered the other. :)
>>> 
>>> Julian
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 10, 2025, at 7:09 AM, PJ Fanning <fannin...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>> I'd like to formally begin the discussion about accepting Burr
>>>> into the Apache Incubator. The proposal is:
>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/BurrProposal
>>>> 
>>>> Related Thread:
>>>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/8hxxv7y2z3p06jxm3mnp8o5qgoz4r3t3
>>>> 
>>>> The vote to accept the related podling, Apache Hamilton has passed.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> PJ
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