link to separate contribute readme

Author: benman1

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+We welcome contributions from developers of all levels. If you find anything amiss with the notebooks or dependencies, please feel free to create a pull request.
+
+If you want to change the conda dependency specification (the yaml file), you can test it like this:
+```bash
+conda env create --file langchain_ai.yaml --force
+```
+
+You can update the pip requirements like this:
+```bash
+pip freeze > requirements.txt
+```
+
+Please make sure that you keep these two ways of maintaining dependencies in sync.
+
+Then make sure, you test the notebooks in the new environment to see that they run.
+
+# Code validation
+We've included a `Makefile` that includes instructions for validation with flake8, mypy, and other tools. I have run mypy like this:
+```bash
+make typecheck
+```
+
+To run the code validation in ruff, please run
+```bash
+ruff check .
+```
+    

README.md

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 ## 👋 Contribute
 
-We welcome contributions from developers of all levels. If you find anything amiss with the notebooks or dependencies, please feel free to create a pull request.
+We welcome contributions from developers of all levels. If you'd like to contribute, please check our [contributing guidelines](./CONTRIBUTING.md) and help make this repository and the book more accessible.
 
-If you want to change the conda dependency specification (the yaml file), you can test it like this:
-```bash
-conda env create --file langchain_ai.yaml --force
-```
-
-You can update the pip requirements like this:
-```bash
-pip freeze > requirements.txt
-```
-
-Please make sure that you keep these two ways of maintaining dependencies in sync.
-
-Then make sure, you test the notebooks in the new environment to see that they run.
-
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-
-## ❤️ Contributors
-
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-
-### Code validation
-I've included a `Makefile` that includes instructions for validation with flake8, mypy, and other tools. I have run mypy like this:
-```bash
-make typecheck
-```
-
-To run the code validation in ruff, please run
-```bash
-ruff check .
-```
-  </details>
-    
 
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