Noam Chomsky, 95, in hospital in his wife’s native country of Brazil after stroke
www.independent.co.uk
The 95-year-old famed linguist has not been seen in public since June last year
  • NateNate60@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 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

    • SrTobi@feddit.deEnglish
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      5 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 🤯