<story><title>Critical Behavior from Deep Dynamics: A Hidden Dimension in Natural Language</title><url>http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06737v2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BenoitP</author><text>&amp;gt; [...] A Hidden Dimension in Natural Language&lt;p&gt;Mmmh&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; [...] We show that in many data sequences — from texts in different languages to melodies and genomes&lt;p&gt;Hum, ehrm&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; [...] natural languages are poorly approximated by Markov processes.&lt;p&gt;Alright, alright&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; [...] This model class captures the essence of probabilistic context-free grammars&lt;p&gt;Ok, ok&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; [...] and cosmological inflation&lt;p&gt;Wat.&lt;p&gt;Out of nowhere, Creation of the Univerve.&lt;p&gt;-------------&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m always baffled by the ability to draw parallels. Did a colleague take at peek at the screen and said, hey I have the same equations?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gargoyle</author><text>Worth noting the authors, Henry Lin and Max Tegmark, are both  astrophysicists. Among other things.</text></comment>
<story><title>Critical Behavior from Deep Dynamics: A Hidden Dimension in Natural Language</title><url>http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06737v2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BenoitP</author><text>&amp;gt; [...] A Hidden Dimension in Natural Language&lt;p&gt;Mmmh&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; [...] We show that in many data sequences — from texts in different languages to melodies and genomes&lt;p&gt;Hum, ehrm&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; [...] natural languages are poorly approximated by Markov processes.&lt;p&gt;Alright, alright&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; [...] This model class captures the essence of probabilistic context-free grammars&lt;p&gt;Ok, ok&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; [...] and cosmological inflation&lt;p&gt;Wat.&lt;p&gt;Out of nowhere, Creation of the Univerve.&lt;p&gt;-------------&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m always baffled by the ability to draw parallels. Did a colleague take at peek at the screen and said, hey I have the same equations?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakub_h</author><text>&amp;gt; Did a colleague take at peek at the screen and said, hey I have the same equations?&lt;p&gt;This would an interesting thing to try - a computer system that would scan all the papers for math and find parallels. I think we already have something like term indexing for deductive systems?</text></comment>