Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky dies at age 95
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Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky dies at age 95
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#2A great loss. R.I.P. Dr Chomsky
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#3posted 40 min ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720876
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#4It will never cease to amaze me that he is the creator of Chomsky heirarchy of Grammars that I learned in university, and I can go to youtube to find him talking about how each American president would be guilty of violating the Geneva Convention.
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#7I wonder why exactly this is posted as a google translation of a portuguese article.
Is it perhaps a play on the work done by Chomsky in algorithmical syntactical language analysis, and how it relates to the modern Deep Learning advancedments in the form of automated Translation?
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#8I remember emailing him once while at MIT to invite him for a dinner series that I was hosting back in the 2010s. He couldn’t attend but sent a long and beautiful reply.
Remarkable, how approachable he was for being such as a hallowed figure.
RIP!
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#9It will never cease to amaze me that he is the creator of Chomsky heirarchy of Grammars that I learned in university, and I can go to youtube to find him talking about how each American president would be guilty of violating the Geneva Convention.
The contribution of the Chomsky hierarchy to computer science is highly significant. It had a big personal impact when I was learning about compilers and parsing.
Any remembrance is going to keep getting flagged off of HN because of his other activities, though.
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#10posted 40 min ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720876
Yes, this article doesn't appear to have any independent sourcing, it just cites the Jacobin one that you link: "de acordo com a revista norte-americana Jacobin" ("according to the North American magazine Jacobin").