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In this rebuttal, we respond to each reviewer's minor comments individually, as there are no Thank you for the extremely positive review. We will fix the one typo reported. Rubanova et al. [2020] also consider Bayesian optimisation over strings. We will discuss this contemporaneous work (published at the start of this month) in our final version.