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1. Lucasoato · 1791034086 · focus · HN ↗

   > 4. It thinks in German

   This means that it’s always on time, it uses acronyms for everything and when there’s a decision to be made, it sets up a committee.

   1. rererereferred · 1791036804 · focus · HN ↗

      I wonder if their very long words result in more or less token usage.

      1. thenthenthen · 1791041511 · focus · HN ↗

         This is an interesting question, Chinese is way more compact in Character count vs English (about 40%?), let alone german, but yeah.. Chinese makes up for it with… total character count that runs into the thousands…
      2. amunozo · 1791044331 · focus · HN ↗

         Very long words in German are just compounds, made from individual words or morphemes. It is the same as in English if you remove spaces. Subtokens will be equivalent with or without examples.

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