Connection time out when downloading MNIST

[robotdude17]

Dear Sir,

We have tried to download the MNIST dataset using the simple example you provided:

#!/usr/bin/env python3 from sets import Mnist #Download, parse and cache the dataset. train, test = Mnis()

Download ~/.dataset/sets/mnist/train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz ... urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 110] Connection timed out>

Maybe the link is corrupted. Your feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Hannes

[kushal-vangara]

The website is offline and hence you are getting that error. You can try downloading the data from the web archives. Alternatively, you can use this link: http://data.pymvpa.org/datasets/mnist/ Hope it helps.