Rust-mnist is an MNIST dataset parser written in rust. It is simple and lightweight, not
unreasonably slow and features some helpful error messages to get you started.

Using rust-mnist
----------------

See [examples/perceptron.rs](../master/examples/perceptron.rs) for a rudamentary demonstration.


You will need to download and extract the dataset from http://yann.lecun.org/exdb/mnist/index.html
before use.

You may also want to add rust-mnist to your Cargo.toml, so that Cargo can manage it as a dependency
for you:

```TOML
[dependencies]
rust-mnist = "0.1"
```

Finally, you may want to use some logging implementation if you'd like to see `info` or `debug`
information from rust-mnist. I'd recommend [fern](https://docs.rs/fern/0.5.9/fern/).

Please note that this is a new project, made for my own use, and may feature frequent breaking
changes until it stabilizes. You can stay up to date on these changes by reading the
[CHANGELOG.md](../master/CHANGELOG.md).