r-three/shakespeare-sonnet-dialogue-blob

Taken from Andrej Karpathy and repurposed for UofT's CSC 413 Deep Learning 40,000 lines of Shakespeare from a variety of Shakespeare's plays. Featured in Andrej Karpathy's blog post 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks': http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/. Usage To use for e.g. character modelling: from datasets import load_dataset # Load the dataset dataset = load_dataset("r-three/shakespeare-sonnet-dialogue-blob")… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/r-three/shakespeare-sonnet-dialogue-blob.

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