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Complete deep learning project developed in Full Stack Deep Learning, Spring 2021
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Yann's link to MNIST dataset errors out with 503 service unavailable. "http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz"" #25

Closed just-eoghan closed 3 years ago

just-eoghan commented 3 years ago

TLDR;

"http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz" used to get MNIST data can result in a 503 HTTP error code . Consider changing to an S3 link such as "https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/fsdl-public-assets/matlab.zip" used for EMNIST data.

Hi,

For lab 2 of FSDL running the following;

$ !python3 training/run_experiment.py --model_class=CNN --data_class=MNIST--max_epochs=5 --gpus=1

Resulted in a 503 service unavailable HTTP status code for me when I was running it at 15:30 GMT 15/04/2021

Perhaps a solution could be to put the dataset on S3 similar to "https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/fsdl-public-assets/matlab.zip" which is used for the EMNIST dataset in this lab? Or maybe having a fallback S3 URL if the request receives a 503.

Thanks!

just-eoghan commented 3 years ago

The download issue has been solved on yann.lecun.com so this can be closed.