Image Classification in a Single Dimension using MNIST 1-D

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When we think of an image, it's almost natural to think of a two-dimensional (2-D) representation right? Well, in reading the previous sentence carefully, ‘almost’ is the keyword.

In a recent paper, Scaling down deep learning, Sam Greydanus introduced a rather cool 1-D image dataset called the MNIST 1-D labelling it as, “A minimalist, low-memory, and low-compute…