domain | nolanlawson.com |
summary | **Summary:**
The linguist's role is to identify implicit rules governing language aspects like syntax (word order), semantics (meaning), and phonology (sound systems). For instance, in 'beds', the final 's' is pronounced like a 'z' due to 'voicing' of the final consonant. The author feels outmatched by automated testing tools that generate unit tests swiftly, questioning if manually crafted tests can compare. They also acknowledge a shift in their stance on statistical methods potentially approaching human language complexities, once considered uniquely beautiful and ineffable (indescribable) as per Noam Chomsky's views. |
title | Read the Tea Leaves | Software and other dark arts, by Nolan Lawson |
description | Software and other dark arts, by Nolan Lawson |
keywords | framework, benchmark, like, have, performance, time, components, more, work, years, still, code, there, even, browser, things, post |
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nslookup | A 192.0.78.24, A 192.0.78.25 |
created | 2025-04-12 |
updated | 2025-05-15 |
summarized | 2025-05-15 |
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