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You can always rely on grandma (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by earlyadopter@sh.itjust.works to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] clb92@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure it can create new words. It can't create new tokens, would be more correct, I think. But a token is just a text fragment, and, as far as I know, they can range from being several words to being single characters.

[–] Dr_Cog@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Tokens are usually never multiple words. Think of them like "information units". If you have a plural word "hats", there are two tokens: the "hat" one and the "s' that adds more information about it being plural. Combinations of words only really occur for proper names.