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		forgingahead 43 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Buildin... Where does "Smol" come from? It's supposed to mean "Small" right? If yes then what's the etymology and reason for popular usage?

potsandpans 43 days ago | [–]

It's just internet speak from the days of tumbler. It usually has cutsie connotations.

Tumbler speak has a bunch of whacky things, notably "chimkin nuggers."

lewtun 43 days ago | [–]

In the specific case of SmolLM, it originates from the meme in this dataset https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/the-stack-smol

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