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Some cunning NLP research which has found that really simple statistical models (e.g. does the sentence contain "not"?) is sufficient to answer a good number of text comprehension datasets: https://thegradient.pub/nlps-clever-hans-moment-has-arrived/

The dominance of statistical models in AI, our bias towards embedding human knowledge, and the effectiveness of large, generic compute: https://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

Code completion for Pharo is in GSoC again, looking at type inference and statistical ordering based on recent classes! https://medium.com/@myroslavarm/improving-code-completion-gsoc-2019-introduction-de36e106a12f