alt Hacker NewsRead the article above. There is a link at the top of this submission to an essay by Peter Norvig, arguing (correctly, in retrospect) that Chomsky's approach to language modelling is mistaken.
Read the article above. There is a link at the top of this submission to an essay by Peter Norvig, arguing (correctly, in retrospect) that Chomsky's approach to language modelling is mistaken.
I did read the article. I have a passing familiarity with the debate over Chomsky's theories of universal grammar etc. I didn't notice anything that would cause disgust, and so I wondered what I was failing to understand.