Revisiting MNIST with Fresh Eyes

Hands-On Tutorial; Shifting Perspective in AI

A spatial perspective to MNIST data, rather than the usual vector-treatment

By 2022, the MNIST dataset has become the “Hello-World” dataset of people entering AI. Hell, it’s probably been that for a few years already.

In the usual AI treatment of MNIST––whether loading the data into a neural network, logistic regression, random forest, insert-AI-algorithm-here, each digit, with its pixel values, is treated as a vector (so the square …

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