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The number "42" was apparently chosen as a tribute to the "Hitch-hiker's Guide" books by Douglas Adams, as it was supposedly the answer to the great question of "Life, the universe, and everything" as calculated by a computer (named "Deep Thought") created specifically to solve it.
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A quick search for 1234 in the codebase reveals that the default seed is 1234 in multiple source files. A change from 1234 to 42 brings no significant benefit. I would suggest following the convention and not breaking the established consistency.
https://github.com/yandex/YaLM-100B/search?q=seed+1234
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The number "42" was apparently chosen as a tribute to the "Hitch-hiker's Guide" books by Douglas Adams, as it was supposedly the answer to the great question of "Life, the universe, and everything" as calculated by a computer (named "Deep Thought") created specifically to solve it.