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 ## Setting up this repository
 
-Firstly, due to time constraints, there are components of this codebase that are not abstracted in such a way that they are conducive to collaborative work. There are certain hardcoded elemtns - particularly in the testing and benchmarking modules. I have chosen what I believe to be reasonable defaults for running testing and benchmarking on an average machine.
+Firstly, due to time constraints, there are components of this codebase that are not abstracted in such a way that they are conducive to collaborative work. There are certain hardcoded elements - particularly in the testing and benchmarking modules. I have chosen what I believe to be reasonable defaults for running testing and benchmarking on an average machine.
 
 ### Setup environment