I’m on a mission to gather a massive 100,000 hours of voice data for training an advanced AI. But here’s a problem – grabbing just the voice part from the internet is tricky. So, I got a plan: why not download a bunch of movies and shows and then extract the voice data? That’s where BitTorrent comes into play – a powerful method for sharing files. Now, normally people click buttons in a bit torrent client to get files, but with a colossal 40,000 movies on the agenda, that’s just too slow. That’s why I opted for a more technical approach using bit torrent in the command line. It’s like giving the computer direct instructions to efficiently fetch all those movies for me.
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