# HG changeset patch
# User Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
# Date 1283545850 14400
# Node ID fb6cae14fd0755e544f35b9237320d3371785e5d
# Parent  53f6eb80abf11b68ea0deb8b9625e6c3cf724c32
dataset: Comment about viewing a dataset as a distribution

diff -r 53f6eb80abf1 -r fb6cae14fd07 doc/v2_planning/dataset.txt
--- a/doc/v2_planning/dataset.txt	Fri Sep 03 16:20:10 2010 -0400
+++ b/doc/v2_planning/dataset.txt	Fri Sep 03 16:30:50 2010 -0400
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
  needs to be flexible enough to accommodate different (sub)tasks and views of
  the same underlying data.
  * Datasets as probability distributions from which one can sample.
+    * That's not something I would consider to be a dataset-related problem to
+        tackle now: a probability distribution in Pylearn would probably be a
+        different kind of beast, and it should be easy enough to have a
+        DatasetToDistribution class for instance, that would take care of viewing a
+        dataset as a probability distribution. -- OD
  * Our specification should allow transparent handling of infinite datasets (or
  simply datasets which cannot fit in memory)
  * GPU/buffering issues.