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honey the monster, codewitch wrote: genetivarist I'm curious as to what that means ? If what is meant is someone who advocates "Generative Semantics," that is a theory that opposes Chomsky's ideas.
Chomsky, due to his charisma, and high-profile liberal public political views and activities, is something of a bugaboo for many people. That has nothing to do with the discussion of the extent to which the theory of an "innate universal grammar engine" is the critical factor enabling the remarkable velocity of human children acquiring language/grammar.
fyi: Pinker, originally strongly influenced by Chomsky (one of his key mentors), later disagreed with many of his core concepts [^]
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«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Someone who endorses the idea of generative grammars.
Generative grammar - Wikipedia[^]
Type-0 and Type-1 languages on the Chomsky scale, Chomsky presumably believes in a (theoretically possible) formal rule based system that could solve all the permutations of a language (in theory, in practice it takes forever - this is about the math tho)
I don't. I believe in particular what chomsky thinks are recursively enumerable languages actually defy the ability to completely formalize them mathematically.
but then I am not a generativist. =)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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i meant generativist, sorry
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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The smartest AI will still need a 'why'. Two obvious possibilities emerge:
1 - it's given a 'why' (and thus a what) by a human or other and even more clever creature
2 - it generates it's own 'why' - and the only why relevant to the engine and it's physical components would ultimately come to self preservation (by enhancement).
(1) implies it to be no more than a tool - grandiose in scope, but a mere tool, to real intelligence (vs AI) that can have ambition.
(2) brings forth visions of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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now I'm going to forever think of Ctrl-Z, EOF (which i always call EOS) as Eater of Streams
You've just made programming for me a little more silly. Thank you for that.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Ambition is derived from need, and they might not need us that much
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Ambitiousness and competitiveness are the offspring of regressive genes.
A higher level of intelligence demonstrates that one has evolved beyond such primitive things.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I would laugh... if it wasn't so painfully true
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As if they needed EA to mess up Star Wars.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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and if microsoft made it?
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It would start out really good but with a few flaws, and slowly get more an more bloated and worse without any of the flaws actually being fixed.
Hang on a moment ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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OriginalGriff wrote: It would start out really good but with a few flaws, and slowly get more an more bloated and worse without any of the flaws actually being fixed.
...and once it's too late, you realize you would've been better off investing all that time in another movie franchise altogether.
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Payment received for the ideas of an assistant inspector (5)
Solution: Penny
The inspector in question is Inspector Gadget[^], and his assistant/sidekick is his niece, Penny[^].
The rest of the clue relates to the well known phrase, "A penny for your thoughts"[^]. In which the payment received for your ideas is a penny.
modified 31-Jul-19 8:01am.
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GRANT?
As in Inspector Alan Grant: Inspector Alan Grant Series by Josephine Tey[^] (Not that I've read any)
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nope.
...are you ill? You're having an awful week with your answering
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Or having some ... "difficult" clues.
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Nice clue.
I had to google the answer to check. Still not 100% sure, so I will leave it.
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I will assume you are correct for no other reason than to avoid invalidating the compliment
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Gross? I'm not sure how that goes with the theme.
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Lucre? (Lucas was Maigret's sidekick)
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Nope.
I thought this one would be easy... benefit of already knowing the answer I guess
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They're always easy when you know the answer. And I must admit, mine was a bit tongue in cheek.
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musefan wrote: Payment received for the ideas of an assistant inspector (5)
Robin. Cause he's Batman's sidelick, ROB as in theft for payment and IN cause I need that bit to make my answer correct.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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