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by jvdl 3596 days ago
I draw my 1's the way it's often displayed on screen, with a little tail at the top and a line at the base. Your system keeps detecting this as a 2. I've also had 3's detected as 2's.
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Yeah, the MNIST dataset is not that great it seems. At least for recognising real handwritten digits.
That's bad news for me, because I also plan to use the MNIST data in a project of mine. :)
Well, handwritten is not mousewritten ;) Have you tried real handwritten digits?
I have always written 1's with a tail at the top. That is both the way it's taught in German schools, and how this program outputs the digit. Most of my attempts get recongnized as 7.
I prefer my writing as unambiguous as possible, so I also like that way of writing it. Like someone else mentioned, "mousewritten" is not necessarily the same as handwritten, so that could be part of the problem.
Add to that list, when I draw an 8, it's also recognised as a 2.