How LLMs process text using tokens
Chapter 1

Gathering the raw digital ingredients

Chapter 2

Washing and prepping the data

Chapter 3

Slow-cooking in the neural oven

Chapter 4

Taste-testing and seasoning

YOUR GOAL

Master of The digital cookbook for hungry algorithms

Ch 2 · Washing and prepping the data
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007skaty Artificial intelligence models split text into smaller units called tokens.

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007skaty AI Data Labeling

We tag the messy noise so the machine can learn.

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007skaty Safety filters remove toxic content from artificial intelligence training data.

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Peeling away the digital dirt

007skaty Like washing muddy potatoes, data engineers remove duplicate sentences, broken HTML, and spam to protect AI from consuming bad data.

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Sifting out the toxic weeds

007skaty Filtering out hate speech and private data keeps the AI recipe book safe

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Word Chef for Bots
BETA

007skaty Feed your bot the right word ingredients to learn how AI processes human language.

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Fun Fact

Token chewing: Large language models do not read letters; they process numbers representing chunks of words called tokens.

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Glossary
data cleaning (noun)
The process of detecting and correcting or removing corrupt or inaccurate records from a database. MIT researchers in 2017 applied this process to filter over one million recipes for the Recipe1M+ dataset.

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Gossip

Which data cleaning step is most critical?

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Quiz

Cleaning raw datasets by removing HTML tags and spam can reduce an AI model's training time by up to what percentage?

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007skaty Data engineers clean raw web text to train artificial intelligence models

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Standardizing the kitchen measurements

007skaty Mixing grams and ounces ruins recipes, but standardizing measurements through data normalization ensures all variables have an equal say.

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What is the process of finding and removing identical or highly similar text blocks from training data called?

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What tool do data engineers use to automatically identify and filter out toxic language from raw text files?

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What unit of data storage, equal to one million gigabytes, represents the scale of massive web datasets being filtered?

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Which popular tokenization algorithm breaks words down into common sub-word units for modern language models?

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In natural language processing, what is the basic unit of text that an AI model reads and predicts called?

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What term is used in machine learning to describe the highly accurate, human-verified labels used as training targets?

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In what year did Amazon launch its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform, which became a vital tool for data labeling?

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To what standard mathematical range is numeric data commonly scaled during the normalization prep process?

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