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