Download mnist dataset and extract in 1 second!
For Caffe users: create $CAFFE/data/mnist/get_mnist_fast.sh:
#!/usr/bin/env sh
# This scripts downloads the mnist data and unzips it.
DIR="$( cd "$(dirname "$0")" ; pwd -P )"
cd "$DIR"
echo "Downloading..."
wget https://gitee.com/aczz/mnist/repository/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
for fname in train-images-idx3-ubyte train-labels-idx1-ubyte t10k-images-idx3-ubyte t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte
do
gunzip mnist/${fname}.gz
mv mnist/${fname} ./
done