changeset 1023:fb6cae14fd07

dataset: Comment about viewing a dataset as a distribution
author Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
date Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:30:50 -0400
parents 53f6eb80abf1
children f3801e0e3913
files doc/v2_planning/dataset.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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.