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summary
A small system that learns structural string edits from examples converts English plural→singular forms by inferring minimal splice rules (match suffixes, replace last N characters) and emitting generates readable Swift code composed of conditional splices instead of opaque models. It uses about fifty incremental examples in the demo, produces fixable if‑statements you can step through in a debugger, and targets narrow morphological tasks (tenses, affixes) where machine‑learned binaries are otherwise inscrutable.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:05Compilers and Machine Learning
- 2:37Problems with Compilers
- 3:36Can we get this
- 6:36Dictionary
- 8:09Morphological Operations
- 9:13String Transformation
- 10:42Plural Form
- 15:18Examples
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