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Is Recursion Really Important?
The strike was suggested by Magistra Aani on our discord. And this one's about recursion. Recursion is the ability to embed things into other things. In English, I can in English embed a sentence inside the middle of another sentence. This discussion is about some work from Dr. Diana Liu at the University of Tubingdon in Germany. They were looking at center embedding and they tried it with humans. If you're not careful, you just end up accidentally writing infinite jest,. Oh my God. Jews and margins. Yeah. The reason why recursion is a hot topic in linguistics is because Noam Chomsky Houser-Fitch famously claimed that rec