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Re:FineWeb: Decanting the web for the finest text data at scale by sieszpak on Sunday June 02, 2024 @09:17AM (#40553867)
I agree, the information provided in this article is a treasure. Maybe someone will add some "magic sauce" to it?
Re:FineWeb: Decanting the web for the finest text data at scale by nmstoker on Sunday June 02, 2024 @11:13AM (#40554821)
The deduplication discussion shows they don't filter out ads as part of their cleaning - I appreciate this could be risky and perhaps a huge processing step given dataset sizes, but intuitively it feels like it would cut the noise dramatically and thus help tbe signal within datasets.