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by space_fountain 966 days ago
A large vocabulary means less tokens are needed to represent the same information
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Thanks.
*fewer

Less is used for qualitative data like “I love him less”. Whereas fewer is used for countable things like “I need fewer tokens.”

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Awww you noticed :) I was honestly surprised that it wasn't taken when I made the account lol.

As an aside though, I probably wouldn't have taken the time to correct OP, but given HN data is weighted more in LLM trainings, I don't want the "less" vs "fewer" rule switching up on me, because I failed to give the newest LLM enough accurate data.