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You sound just like Noam Chomsky when it comes to this :) He always talked about the LAD!
by EGreg · Nov 8, 2026
I agree that is something we need to learn a lot more about, but a human child's brain does not appear to be necessary to learn language and I argue the evidence supports that.…
by stillpointlab · Nov 7, 2026
I sent Chomsky an email on 9/11 asking about blowback, mentioning that I had once met him when a group I belonged to took him to breakfast before a speech he gave about Rea…
by jibalt · Nov 7, 2026
> long after any sensible person Chomsky is a sensible person, and many other sensible people also continued to engage with Epstein. Hindsight and not being personally involved…
by jibalt · Nov 7, 2026
grep was written by people who knew about regular languages and the Kleene star via Chomsky and via BNF used to describe Algol's syntax.
by jibalt · Nov 7, 2026
Chomsky was a prominent critic of the U.S. invasion of Vietnam and of intellectuals who abdicated their responsibility -- nearly everyone attending universities in the late 1960…
by jibalt · Nov 7, 2026
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Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Read more on Wikipedia