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an image incorporating two famous memes. on top is the title “learning about Σ* in theory of computation.”

in the centre is a close-up of Chad face – often used when talking about sigma males – cropped in a five-pointed star shape.

below are two soyjaks pointing towards the aforementioned Chad face. those soyjaks are labeled “me” and “my brain”.

    • lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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      1 year ago

      what’d a symbol be? a pixel?

      aside from this, they say a picture is worth a 1000 words. so maybe a big language.

    • Mars@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      A tree can be seen as a formal language. Look into L-systems.

      If you generalize what a symbol is (the rgb value of a pixel) you can write a grammar that ends producing a list of pixels. You can then place it in a 2d matrix and you have an image.

      I guess a better approach would be wave function colapse, but seems to me like it could be formally described as a grammar (CS or CF, dunno, would have to look into it)