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 (**Just as we implemented linear regression from scratch, we believe that**)
 softmax regression
 is similarly fundamental and
-(**you ought to know the gory details of **)
-(~~softmax regression~~)
-how to implement it yourself.
+(**you ought to know the gory details of**) (~~softmax regression~~) and how to implement it yourself.
 We will work with the Fashion-MNIST dataset, just introduced in :numref:`sec_fashion_mnist`,
 setting up a data iterator with batch size 256.