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PotatoFarmsKing

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PotatoFarmsKing··on Claude Science
Before LLMs the tech groups I followed were ripping with discussions about this and that topic, what to use and when; I believe these discussions sparked the creation of many frameworks and tools out of "this seems like a good idea, wouldn't hurt to implement it". Unfortunately it all resolves around LLMs nowadays and how to make some LLM work some way or another, we don't even discuss the very topics the groups were created to discuss. I fear science is soon to taste the same thing - discussions about LLMs taking place instead of the actual topics that would be discussed otherwise.
PotatoFarmsKing··on A beginner-friendly approach to Pratt Parsing
I wrote a beginner-friendly blog post about Pratt parsing, hopefully it can help more people understand it. This is actually what I wanted to see when I was learning it; when I was reading Bjarne Stroustrup's book on C++ he also builds a little math parser and it is really simple to follow. The code for the full project is also available at the end of the post under the citations.