There have been many people in history who have taken parsimony to extremes. Hetty Green, the so-called "Witch Of Wall Street", inherited a considerable amount of wealth, but practiced frugality to such a degree that you never would have thought she was rich if you didn't know it already...
Parsers are everywhere in computer science. All text has to be parsed into a data structure that programs can do something with.
At The Chinese, we had Defender and a couple other games in the corner. After the last show let out (1AM) we would pop out the cash box and play until we couldn’t see straight.
Yay Defender! I never got much practice on that one, but I looooooved Ms Pac Man from the older group. That first generation of standup arcade games (the ones that really took off) were just incredible for their time, such wonders. I couldn't keep my eyes off them, and i was not alone.
I'm also learning about parsing text, in a manner of speaking! Playing w/metaprompts, and ultimately trying to parse text into structure at the back end. I may have a better update for you some time soon when my brain is not mush.
Tempest, Missile command, Galaga, Centipide (millipede)… I was the best at Galaga, pretty good at Tempest. Went to the arcade over the weekend and got on the leaderboard.
On parsing, there is a deeper story here. In CS, parsing is one of the fundamental mechanisms to convert from human <-> machine. HTML/CSS parsing for example - no webpage would render without a super messy and sopohisticated parser in every browser. Conceptually that works for LLMs but in reality they are far from this kind of plumbing.
There have been many people in history who have taken parsimony to extremes. Hetty Green, the so-called "Witch Of Wall Street", inherited a considerable amount of wealth, but practiced frugality to such a degree that you never would have thought she was rich if you didn't know it already...
Rockefeller was like this too. It's not a coincidence.
In John D.’s case, though, he had a family to inherit his fortune, so their influence was felt by more than one generation.
I feel this - it is still being felt today, in a manner of speaking. Privilege has a way of reaching down through generations of wealth, too.
I had a friend who used to say, when money was getting tight, that he was "going into parsimonious mode." HA! First time I ever heard the word.
We chose parsimony as selection criteria for equivalent statistical models, an Occam's Razor approach indeed!
I always think about the word "parse" when I'm trying to simplify any task!
I have written many parsers in creating software compilers. :-)
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/compiler-design/lr-parser/
Parsers are everywhere in computer science. All text has to be parsed into a data structure that programs can do something with.
At The Chinese, we had Defender and a couple other games in the corner. After the last show let out (1AM) we would pop out the cash box and play until we couldn’t see straight.
Yay Defender! I never got much practice on that one, but I looooooved Ms Pac Man from the older group. That first generation of standup arcade games (the ones that really took off) were just incredible for their time, such wonders. I couldn't keep my eyes off them, and i was not alone.
I'm also learning about parsing text, in a manner of speaking! Playing w/metaprompts, and ultimately trying to parse text into structure at the back end. I may have a better update for you some time soon when my brain is not mush.
Tempest, Missile command, Galaga, Centipide (millipede)… I was the best at Galaga, pretty good at Tempest. Went to the arcade over the weekend and got on the leaderboard.
On parsing, there is a deeper story here. In CS, parsing is one of the fundamental mechanisms to convert from human <-> machine. HTML/CSS parsing for example - no webpage would render without a super messy and sopohisticated parser in every browser. Conceptually that works for LLMs but in reality they are far from this kind of plumbing.
It's weird to build code with words.
Vibe on bro