• fubarx@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Will be forever beholden to his work on language and grammar. Made it bearable to sit through a pointless CompSci class.

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        7 months ago

        The Chomsky hierarchy is still taught in computer science. That’s as much as I know of Chomsky. I don’t know anything about his philosophy or natural language contributions

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          7 months ago

          It still amazes that even for two Chomsky-2 languages it is undecidable whether they are equal or not in the general case. Or whether one context free grammar is unambiguous 🤯