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"author: Aurélien Garivier\n",
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"# An experiment with the MNIST dataset\n",
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"The Mnist dataset provides a (somewhat old but) very classical example of Machine Learning. The goal is simple and useful: recognize hand-written digits. This was an important challenge for the postal companies in the 1980s. \n",
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"It is available on the webpage of Yann LeCun, a very famous researcher in Machine Learning in general and neural networks in particular. \n",
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