I was trying to draw broader parallels between what I was finding for language, and the impact of complexity in a broader range of domains.
The original site emphasized tag-based navigation and connections between ideas:
The tag system was central to the site’s organization, reflecting the theoretical premise of multiple ways to organize complex information:
Attempt at a core theoretical foundation I made for the website, seemingly around 2010, presenting why natural language cannot be reduced to abstract rules, connecting linguistic irregularity to broader concepts in mathematics and complex systems.
Original introduction to the website from around 2008, presenting the core idea that complex sets can contain more regularities than objects.
Wittgenstein's famous discussion of the concept of 'games' and family resemblances in language.
Brief note on Gosper's discovery of the glider gun in Conway's Game of Life.
Kuhn on knowledge embedded in shared exemplars from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Sydney Lamb's response to Chomsky's objections to phonemic abstraction, defending the centrality of contrastive function.
Discussion of Pawley and Syder's work on nativelike selection - how native speakers don't use the full creative potential of grammar.
Discussion of the Hutter Prize and the relationship between compression and intelligence, noting the incompressibility of natural language.
W.J. Freeman discusses the discovery of chaos in brain activity and its role in perception and novel activity patterns.
Thomas Kuhn discusses Wittgenstein's theory of family resemblances and its implications for understanding meaning and knowledge as sets of examples.
Discussion of John Conway's formalization of games and its relationship to numerical representations and meaning.
Note on the chaotic nature of the Glider Gun's generation process in cellular automata.
Discussion of whether natural language grammar is formally incomplete or simply random, referencing Shannon's entropy estimates.
Rudy Rucker discusses Wolfram's ideas about cellular automata as examples of incompressible computations that appear random.
Calude and Stay explore connections between Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and Gödel's incompleteness theorem via algorithmic randomness.
John Sowa discusses René Thom's catastrophe theory and Wolfgang Wildgen's application of these ideas to linguistic semantics.
Announcement of the site's expansion from parsing to broader considerations of language, meaning, and complexity theory.
Discussion of how determinate relational distributions can produce random language statistics while maintaining systematic structure.
Analysis of how paradigmatic distributions in text create numerous but overlapping classes that govern random syntax.