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

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[-] acausal_masochist@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 16 points 2 months ago

𒍪𒌝𒁍

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

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

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 20 points 2 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.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

Uh-huh?

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