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**I am looking for CUDA gurus to optimize the kernel :) Please contact me if you are interested. Thank you.**
User feedback:
> *I've so far toyed around the character-based model on our relatively small pre-training dataset (around 10GB of text), and the results are extremely good - similar ppl to models taking much, much longer to train.*