Noam Chomsky, famed linguist and political commentator, at 95 years old (hexbear.net)

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[-] NoGodsNoMasters@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you hate chomsky for his political opinions, i hate chomsky for his linguistics opinions ~~(and also his political opinions)~~. we are not the same

[-] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

IDK about natural languages, but his work has been useful in computing. We have him to thank for regex, for instance.

[-] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

This is Sheila Greibach erasure

[-] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Sheila Adele Greibach (born 6 October 1939 in New York City) is an American researcher in formal languages in computing, automata, compiler theory and computer science. She is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and notable work include working with Seymour Ginsburg and Michael A. Harrison in context-sensitive parsing using the stack automaton model.

You learn something neg every day. I take it this is one among many instances of a man taking all the credit for something a woman played a much bigger part in creating/discovering?

[-] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I have no idea tbh. I forgot the specifics of what I was taught and only remember her + Chomsky because they got the normal forms of CFGs named after them.

Honestly it was shocking to learn that Chomsky did so much other stuff with politics and monkies because he will always be the CFG guy to me haha