# HG changeset patch
# User Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
# Date 1284429983 14400
# Node ID 546bd0ccb0e4c837f05eefd63e320c1497accee1
# Parent  5e6d7d9e803ab448c528d782e29fa99bde83e431
dataset: Question about shared variables

diff -r 5e6d7d9e803a -r 546bd0ccb0e4 doc/v2_planning/dataset.txt
--- a/doc/v2_planning/dataset.txt	Mon Sep 13 20:21:23 2010 -0400
+++ b/doc/v2_planning/dataset.txt	Mon Sep 13 22:06:23 2010 -0400
@@ -338,3 +338,8 @@
 framework that I have in mind, which was spattered around in the learner.txt
 and some of my previous emails. I think it shares a lot with James concepts, 
 since it follows quite closely the concepts behind Theano.
+
+OD asks: Ok, so why would the dataset have to be responsible for providing a
+shared variable? Why wouldn't the learner just create this shared variable
+internally and copy into it the data provided by the dataset?
+