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+import os
+import requests
+import tiktoken
+import numpy as np
+
+# download the tiny shakespeare dataset
+input_file_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'input.txt')
+if not os.path.exists(input_file_path):
+    data_url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karpathy/char-rnn/master/data/tinyshakespeare/input.txt'
+    with open(input_file_path, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+        f.write(requests.get(data_url).text)
+
+with open(input_file_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+    data = f.read()
+n = len(data)
+train_data = data[:int(n*0.9)]
+val_data = data[int(n*0.9):]
+
+# encode with tiktoken gpt2 bpe
+enc = tiktoken.get_encoding("gpt2")
+train_ids = enc.encode_ordinary(train_data)
+val_ids = enc.encode_ordinary(val_data)
+print(f"train has {len(train_ids):,} tokens")
+print(f"val has {len(val_ids):,} tokens")
+
+# export to bin files
+train_ids = np.array(train_ids, dtype=np.uint16)
+val_ids = np.array(val_ids, dtype=np.uint16)
+train_ids.tofile(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'train.bin'))
+val_ids.tofile(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'val.bin'))
+
+# train.bin has 301,966 tokens
+# val.bin has 36,059 tokens