# HG changeset patch # User bengioy@esprit.iro.umontreal.ca # Date 1209062770 14400 # Node ID c682c6e9bf935272b255bb8ff7fe7f8b374dbf39 # Parent d637ad8f735261312cb82963feb8344a8bb2bc2f Minor edits diff -r d637ad8f7352 -r c682c6e9bf93 dataset.py --- a/dataset.py Thu Apr 24 13:25:39 2008 -0400 +++ b/dataset.py Thu Apr 24 14:46:10 2008 -0400 @@ -323,7 +323,8 @@ dataset[i:j:s] returns the subdataset with examples i,i+2,i+4...,j-2. dataset[[i1,i2,..,in]] returns the subdataset with examples i1,i2,...,in. - Note that some stream datasets may be unable to implement slicing/indexing + Note that some stream datasets may be unable to implement random access, i.e. + arbitrary slicing/indexing because they can only iterate through examples one or a minibatch at a time and do not actually store or keep past (or future) examples. """