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Noam Chomsky, 95, ‘no longer able to talk’ as intellectual’s ‘health deteriorates’ (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.de 0 points 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 🤯