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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Uh-huh?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month 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.