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* bug fixes and add seed

* more random corrections

* make cleanup more robust

* return cleanup fn

* delint and address PR comments.

* delint and fix tests

* delinting is never done

* add pipeline hashing

* delint

Sometimes it takes longer than 15 seconds, and even longer than 1 minute, to spawn and create the alive file.

* Fix spurious "did not start correctly" error.

The error "Generation subprocess did not start correctly" would occur if the async process started up after the main process checked for the subproc_alive file.

* Add error message

* Fix convergence issues for MLPerf.

Thank you to @robieta for helping me find these issues, and for providng an algorithm for the `get_hit_rate_and_ndcg_mlperf` function.

This change causes every forked process to set a new seed, so that forked processes do not generate the same set of random numbers. This improves evaluation hit rates.

Additionally, it adds a flag, --ml_perf, that makes further changes so that the evaluation hit rate can match the MLPerf reference implementation.

I ran 4 times with --ml_perf and 4 times without. Without --ml_perf, the highest hit rates achieved by each run were 0.6278, 0.6287, 0.6289, and 0.6241. With --ml_perf, the highest hit rates were 0.6353, 0.6356, 0.6367, and 0.6353.

* fix lint error

* Fix failing test

* Address @robieta's feedback

* Address more feedback

This is done by using a higher Pickle protocol version, which the Python docs describe as being "slightly more efficient". This reduces the file write time at the beginning from 2 1/2 minutes to 5 seconds.

The data_async_generation.py process would print to stderr, but the main process would redirect it's stderr to a pipe. The main process never read from the pipe, so when the pipe was full, data_async_generation.py would stall on a write to stderr. This change makes data_async_generation.py not write to stdout/stderr.

* add indirection file

* remove unused imports

* fix import

* intermediate commit

* ncf now working

* reorder pipeline

* allow batched decode for file backed dataset

* fix bug

* more tweaks

* parallize false negative generation

* shared pool hack

* workers ignore sigint

* intermediate commit

* simplify buffer backed dataset creation to fixed length record approach only. (more cleanup needed)

* more tweaks

* simplify pipeline

* fix misplaced cleanup() calls. (validation works\!)

* more tweaks

* sixify memoryview usage

* more sixification

* fix bug

* add future imports

* break up training input pipeline

* more pipeline tuning

* first pass at moving negative generation to async

* refactor async pipeline to use files instead of ipc

* refactor async pipeline

* move expansion and concatenation from reduce worker to generation workers

* abandon complete async due to interactions with the tensorflow threadpool

* cleanup

* remove per...