Fix PT 1.8 compatibility issue

[kaushikb11]

What does this PR do?

Fixes PT 1.8 compatibility issue

• fix torch._six
• fix assert_allclose doesn't check shape PR
• fix MNIST User Agent issue.

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Codecov Report

Merging #580 (61dfe39) into master (4e1c150) will decrease coverage by 0.58%.
The diff coverage is 34.37%.

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...ts/models/autoencoders/basic_ae/basic_ae_module.py	88.15% <ø> (ø)
.../models/autoencoders/basic_vae/basic_vae_module.py	91.75% <ø> (ø)
pl_bolts/models/vision/image_gpt/gpt2.py	100.00% <ø> (ø)
pl_bolts/models/gans/pix2pix/components.py	17.94% <17.94%> (ø)
pl_bolts/models/gans/pix2pix/pix2pix_module.py	22.44% <22.44%> (ø)
pl_bolts/datamodules/async_dataloader.py	22.05% <50.00%> (+1.16%)	⬆️
pl_bolts/datasets/imagenet_dataset.py	20.45% <75.00%> (+0.80%)	⬆️
pl_bolts/callbacks/byol_updates.py	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
pl_bolts/datasets/__init__.py	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
pl_bolts/models/__init__.py	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
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[pep8speaks]

Hello @kaushikb11! Thanks for updating this PR.

There are currently no PEP 8 issues detected in this Pull Request. Cheers! 🍻

Comment last updated at 2021-03-09 10:08:50 UTC