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 # A Hackers' Guide to Language Models
 
 The notebook from the video is [lm-hackers.ipynb](lm-hackers.ipynb). The other files are for axolotl fine-tuning.
+
+# Setup
+
+Install the requirements using:
+
+```
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
+
+# OpenAI API Key
+
+Get an API key from https://platform.openai.com and place it in a `.env` file:
+
+```
+OPENAI_API_KEY=<YOUR KEY HERE>
+```
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+tiktoken
+openai
+pydantic
+fastcore
+transformers
+wikipedia-api
+torch
+ipykernel
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