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 *  Keras 2.2.4
 
 ## Reproduce
-To run the experiment, run the split_mnist.py by:
-'''bash
+To run the experiment, run the `split_mnist.py` by:
+```bash
 python split_mnist.py'
-'''
+```
 
 The result should be similar to the figure below: