# Let there be an input dataset `docs`: list[str] of documents (e.g. a dataset of names)
if not os.path.exists('input.txt'):
    import urllib.request
    names_url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karpathy/makemore/refs/heads/master/names.txt'
    urllib.request.urlretrieve(names_url, 'input.txt')
docs = [l.strip() for l in open('input.txt').read().strip().split('\n') if l.strip()] # list[str] of documents
random.shuffle(docs)
print(f"num docs: {len(docs)}")