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Does anyone know how this fits with (or not) Chomsky's ideas of language processing?

    |-----long timing loop / top of parse tree-----|
    |                                              |
    |-shorter / child node -|                      |-shorter / child node-|
    |                       |                      |                      |
    |highest freq|          |highest freq|         |highest freq|         |highest freq|

Similarly, ChatGPT (gpt2-medium) has 12 heads of attention. GPT-3 has 96.

I don't know how superimposed waves in finely tuned timing loops with non-linear interference translates into heads of attention, and honestly I suspect a lot of the things difficult to do with heads of attention (and other approaches of the past) come for free in a resonance based system.

the idea that some linguistic facilities are innate? or the government binding model of grammar or something else?

for the first two, I think this orthogonal

What are Chomsky's ideas on language processing? He's a linguist, not an NLP person.

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