Adding (compressed) MNIST data

Author: mnielsen

code/mnist_loader.py

@@ -7,10 +7,9 @@
 and ``load_data_wrapper``.  In practice, ``load_data_wrapper`` is the
 function usually called by our neural network code.
 
-Note that the code requires the file ``../data/mnist.pkl``.  This is not
-included in the repository.  It may be downloaded from:
-
-http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/deep/data/mnist/mnist.pkl.gz
+Note that the code requires the file ``../data/mnist.pkl``.  If it's
+not already in that directory then you should unzip the file
+``../data/mnist.pkl.gz``.
 """
 
 #### Libraries

data/README

@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-This directory contains the file ``mnist.pkl``.  This is not included
-in the repository, but may be downloaded from:
-
-http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/deep/data/mnist/mnist.pkl.gz
+This directory should contain the file ``mnist.pkl``.  If it's not
+already in the directoy you should unzip the file ``mnist.pkl.gz``.

data/mnist.pkl.gz

@@ -4,11 +4,9 @@
 
 Draws images based on the MNIST data.
 
-Note that the code requires the file ``../../data/mnist.pkl``.  This is not
-included in the repository.  It may be downloaded from:
-
-http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/deep/data/mnist/mnist.pkl.gz
-"""
+Note that the code requires the file ``../data/mnist.pkl``.  If it's
+not already in that directory then you should unzip the file
+``../data/mnist.pkl.gz``."""
 
 #### Libraries
 # Standard library