store uint8 data in uint8 not float #892
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Fixes #891.
Most of the large datasets in cc-18 are actually "image" dataset with entries from 0-255. Storing them as uint8 will drastically remove the storage space required as well as storing and loading times.
This is special-casing but I think it's a common and important special case. The CIFAR-10 dataset pickle went from 1.4G to 176MB with this patch.