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The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Geoffrey Hinton for his work in computer science. What? (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (12 children)

there's plenty of linguistics cranks, but most of them have nationalistic tint, like people thinking that all languages come from turkish or something like that

[–] acausal_masochist@awful.systems 17 points 3 months ago (4 children)

You give me a word, any word, and I show you how the root of that word is Greek.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hope that was a typo for Proto-Indo-European

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 20 points 3 months ago

PIE was just people wanting to eventually speak Greek but they had yet to figure out how, so they were just working backwards little by little trying to make their language more like Greek.

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