It's always tempting to DNF a book about a topic you know a lot about, and I have studied computational linguistics. This pushed the limit for me, but I'm glad I powered through. I had fun reading this, but I hesitate to recommend it universally. My biggest complaint is that although the book feeds you what feel like plot important details all the time, it's really unsatisfying to make predictions with them. They either never come back or they do in a way that's not much of a thematic payoff.