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01 / belief
“I can give you a math formula for why each one of them is bad and where, and that’s kind of cool. I think that’s very neat.”
02 / belief
“How do I frame the form of the meaning is all I’m talking about. You’re talking about a harder thing, I think.”
03 / belief
“I believe as you hinted, that language is an invented system by humans for communicating their ideas.”
04 / belief
“In every language, I think everyone agrees that all sentences are trees at some level.”
05 / belief
“I want languages to survive because they’re so interesting for so many reasons. But I mean, I find them fascinating just for the language part, but I think there’s a lot of connections to culture as well, which is also very important.”
06 / belief
“I’d say the dependency structures aren’t that hard generally, I think there’s a lot of agreement of what they are for almost any sentence in most languages.”
07 / belief
“I agree with you that it would be nice to figure out… So, there’s some way to figure out the cost.”
08 / belief
“We probably don’t want to treat them all as the same. And so I think that the right model, a better model of a noisy channel would have three different sources of noise, which are background noise, speaker-inherent noise and listener-inherent noise.”
09 / belief
“We think that that’s the kind of a style which tells you it’s legalese, it’s a reasonable guess.”
10 / belief
“As a kid in school, when we had to structure sentences and English grammar, I found that process interesting.”
11 / belief
“There’s a bilateral network, which I think she tends to call the multiple demands network, which does anything kind of hard.”
12 / belief
“There’s this sort of weird view, well, odd view, I think that to think that human language is somehow special.”