Title says it.
The MNIST data set is commonly used for testing and comparing
the quality of different machine learning and artificial intelligence
algorithms.
Notably, for example, it is used in many of Geoffrey Hinton's papers
on his recent breakthrough designs in neural networks.
The repo:
https://github.com/petar/GoMNIST
More info on MNIST can be found on its homepage:
http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/
Thanks
Petar
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