what is this MNIST dataset?
whats the purpose of using it?
Question about MNIST dataset
Hey @muditarya31, MNIST dataset is a collection of images of handwritten digits. It has images of digits from 0-9. For training any classifier, we have to use some dataset upon which our model is trained, and then that model is used to make predictions. So MNIST is just the dataset that can be used to train any ML / DL model.
I hope this explains you about the MNIST dataset !
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