From Proto-Indo-European to machine learning: An unexpected path through linguistics
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Gasper Begus
Summary
The author shares their unconventional path into machine learning, starting from their undergraduate studies in comparative Indo-European linguistics. They explain how historical linguistics reverse-engineers ancient proto-languages like Proto-Indo-European, and how this background unexpectedly led them into the world of ML. The piece connects linguistic principles to modern computational approaches.
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Twitter / XFrom Proto-Indo-European to machine learning: An unexpected path through linguisticsbegus.substack.comKey quotes
· 2 pulledComparative linguistics is one of the most intriguing fields that reverse engineers how the proto-language of Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, and many other languages sounded thousands of years ago.
I got so fascinated by Proto-Indo-European that I spent my underg
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