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Comment by storystarling

12 days ago

Cloning gets you the raw text objects directly. If you scrape the web UI you're dealing with a lot of markup overhead that just burns compute during ingestion. For training data you usually want the structure to be as clean as possible from the start.

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teiferer  11 days ago

Sure, cloning a local copy. But why clone on github?

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