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Gonna be at NeurIPS starting tomorrow afternoon. See you there, in particular if you want to talk about codegen and (post-)LLM research!

> Quality is free, but only to those willing to pay heavily for it. > The major problems of our work are not so much technological as sociological in nature. > Get the best people (cut out the deadwood), and make them happy. Turn them loose.

It's Sunday morning so taking a minute for a nerdy thread (on math, tokenizers and LLMs) of the work of our intern Garreth By adding a few lines of code to the base Llama 3 tokenizer, he got a free boost in arithmetic performance 😮 [thread]

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