Edward Gibson

Literal background noise. There is white noise in the background or some other kind of noise. There's some speaking going on that you're at a party. That's background noise. You're trying to hear someone. It's hard to understand them because there's all this other stuff going on in the background.

Literal background noise. There is white noise in the background or some other kind of noise. There's some speaking going on that you're at a party. That's background noise. You're trying to hear someone. It's hard to understand them because there's all this other stuff going on in the background.

And then there's noise on the receiver side, so that you have some problem maybe understanding me for stuff that's just internal to you in some way. So you've got some other problems, whatever, with understanding for whatever reasons. Maybe you've had too much to drink. Who knows why you're not able to pay attention to the signal? So that's the noisy channel.

And then there's noise on the receiver side, so that you have some problem maybe understanding me for stuff that's just internal to you in some way. So you've got some other problems, whatever, with understanding for whatever reasons. Maybe you've had too much to drink. Who knows why you're not able to pay attention to the signal? So that's the noisy channel.

And then there's noise on the receiver side, so that you have some problem maybe understanding me for stuff that's just internal to you in some way. So you've got some other problems, whatever, with understanding for whatever reasons. Maybe you've had too much to drink. Who knows why you're not able to pay attention to the signal? So that's the noisy channel.

And so that language, if it's a communication system, we are trying to optimize in some sense the passing of the message from one side to the other. One idea is that maybe aspects of word order, for example, might have optimized in some way to make language a little more easy to be passed from speaker to listener. So Shannon's the guy that did this stuff way back in the 40s.

And so that language, if it's a communication system, we are trying to optimize in some sense the passing of the message from one side to the other. One idea is that maybe aspects of word order, for example, might have optimized in some way to make language a little more easy to be passed from speaker to listener. So Shannon's the guy that did this stuff way back in the 40s.

And so that language, if it's a communication system, we are trying to optimize in some sense the passing of the message from one side to the other. One idea is that maybe aspects of word order, for example, might have optimized in some way to make language a little more easy to be passed from speaker to listener. So Shannon's the guy that did this stuff way back in the 40s.

It's very interesting. Historically, he was interested in working in linguistics. He was at MIT, and this was his master's thesis of all things. It's crazy how much he did for his master's thesis in 1948, I think, or 49, something. And he wanted to keep working in language, and it just wasn't a popular thing. communication as a reason, a source for what language was, wasn't popular at the time.

It's very interesting. Historically, he was interested in working in linguistics. He was at MIT, and this was his master's thesis of all things. It's crazy how much he did for his master's thesis in 1948, I think, or 49, something. And he wanted to keep working in language, and it just wasn't a popular thing. communication as a reason, a source for what language was, wasn't popular at the time.

It's very interesting. Historically, he was interested in working in linguistics. He was at MIT, and this was his master's thesis of all things. It's crazy how much he did for his master's thesis in 1948, I think, or 49, something. And he wanted to keep working in language, and it just wasn't a popular thing. communication as a reason, a source for what language was, wasn't popular at the time.

So Chomsky was moving in there, and he just wasn't able to get a handle there, I think. And so he moved to Bell Haps and worked on communication from a mathematical point of view and did all kinds of amazing work. And so he's just- More on the signal side versus the language side. Yeah, mm-hmm.

So Chomsky was moving in there, and he just wasn't able to get a handle there, I think. And so he moved to Bell Haps and worked on communication from a mathematical point of view and did all kinds of amazing work. And so he's just- More on the signal side versus the language side. Yeah, mm-hmm.

So Chomsky was moving in there, and he just wasn't able to get a handle there, I think. And so he moved to Bell Haps and worked on communication from a mathematical point of view and did all kinds of amazing work. And so he's just- More on the signal side versus the language side. Yeah, mm-hmm.

He was interested in that. His examples in the 40s are very language-like things. We can show that there's a noisy channel process going on in When you're listening to me, you know, you can often sort of guess what I meant by what I, you know, what you think I meant given what I said.

He was interested in that. His examples in the 40s are very language-like things. We can show that there's a noisy channel process going on in When you're listening to me, you know, you can often sort of guess what I meant by what I, you know, what you think I meant given what I said.

He was interested in that. His examples in the 40s are very language-like things. We can show that there's a noisy channel process going on in When you're listening to me, you know, you can often sort of guess what I meant by what I, you know, what you think I meant given what I said.

And I mean, with respect to sort of why language looks the way it does, we might, there might be sort of, as I alluded to, there might be ways in which word order is somewhat optimized for, because of the noisy channel in some way.

And I mean, with respect to sort of why language looks the way it does, we might, there might be sort of, as I alluded to, there might be ways in which word order is somewhat optimized for, because of the noisy channel in some way.

And I mean, with respect to sort of why language looks the way it does, we might, there might be sort of, as I alluded to, there might be ways in which word order is somewhat optimized for, because of the noisy channel in some way.