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The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Geoffrey Hinton for his work in computer science. What? (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 31 points 1 month ago (26 children)

Neural nets are much better at processing language than anything produced by the Chomsky school of linguistics.

Hey mate, did you get your PhD or a fucking Nobel in linguistics by any chance? No? Just talking about shit you apparently have no idea about?

I didn't even know you could be a crank about linguistics, that's pretty amazing. What other otherwise really boring fields are you going to tackle, geodesy?

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

there's plenty of linguistics cranks, but most of them have nationalistic tint, like people thinking that all languages come from turkish or something like that

[–] acausal_masochist@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You give me a word, any word, and I show you how the root of that word is Greek.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

Uh-huh?

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