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Read the article above. There is a link at the top of this submission to an essay by Peter Norvig, arguing (correctly, in retrospect) that Chomsky's approach to
by cubefox 11mo ago
Read the article above. There is a link at the top of this submission to an essay by Peter Norvig, arguing (correctly, in retrospect) that Chomsky's approach to language modelling is mistaken.
- andyjohnson0 11mo agoObviously I did read the article. And I know how the hn site works. I have a passing familiarity with the debate over Chomsky's theories of universal grammar etc. I didn't notice anything in the article that would cause disgust, and so I wondered what I was failing to understand.
- cubefox 11mo agoIf you have read many books by Chomsky, it might make you angry that you have wasted so much time on what turned out to be a fundamentally mistaken theory.
- cubefox 11mo agoThe people who downvoted this apparently didn't read the article.
- andyjohnson0 11mo agoIsn't "theory turned out to be wrong" just the price of doing science? And its a good thing: something has been learned.