Regex was inspired by neural networks, revealing a 1950s connection
burny_tech · x · 2026-08-17
A post highlights a historical fact: Stephen Kleene invented regular expressions in the 1950s to characterize McCulloch-Pitts nerve nets (early neural networks). 75 years later, researchers are asking analogous questions about the formal language recognition capabilities of Transformers.
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