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Kate

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The * in regex syntax is called a Kleene Star, by the way. After Stephen Kleene, who invented regexps (in 1951!) to notate grammars from modelling neural networks.
Not AI ones, real biological neural networks.
Your neurons fire with regular grammars!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene_st…