--- a
+++ b/.gitignore
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+# ignore saved datasets which are large sizes
+dataset/**/*.h5
+
+# ignore iPython notebook checkpoints
+.ipynb_checkpoints/
+**/.ipynb_checkpoints/
+
+# ignore already trained parameters
+# we've commented out train/ because a separate .gitignore
+# is added in that directory, to include the directory itself
+# but not the sub-directories
+# train/
+
+# ignore the original dataset
+dataset/F/
+dataset/N/
+dataset/O/
+dataset/S/
+dataset/Z/
+