@agoldst I actually did have a physical Dave and Buster's token sitting on the table behind me as I wrote this -- not sure where it came from/why we didn't get a card.

Yeah a word is kind of like a letter if you stretch it: but a piece of type is weird. Each individual type sort representing the letter 'Q' in a type set is actually just one token of the abstract type. (I.e., you have many 'Q's).

Although… Peirce also knew about *typewriters*, which only have one instance of each letter.

@agoldst True though that a numismatic token is not a Peircian token AFAICT.

This is just something that popped into my head looking through some coin metadata at Dumbarton Oak a few years ago… Suddenly relevant because I realized that probably people seeing our company bills 'by tokens' think we're like a video arcade making up its own fake money, not realizing we're Extra Serious Corpus Linguists.

@fotis_jannidis I mean, my company makes it, so yes… But also I'd say that the difference is:

1. It's better especially for non-technical users -- we have a really GUI so it's actually reasonable for non-programmers
2. We've got some neat local indexing stuff built in for RAG on private documents
3. We have more supported models (all the community finetunes on huggingface+llama.cpp)

OTOH ollama tends to have the latest and greatest models faster than we do.