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Training on a little 🤏 formal language BEFORE natural language can make pretraining more efficient! How and why does this work? The answer lies…Between Circuits and Chomsky. 🧵1/6👇 https://t.co/xXlBlrfSls
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Training on a little 🤏 formal language BEFORE natural language can make pretraining more efficient! How and why does this work? The answer lies…Between Circuits and Chomsky. 🧵1/6👇 https://t.co/xXlBlrfSls
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