Option #$2$: Distinguishing Dogs and Cats

In this assignment, you will train a Convolutional Neural Network $($CNN$)$ to predict whether an image contains a dog or a cat. To do this, use Kaggle$$s cats and dogs DatasetLinks to an external site.. $($Click on $$Data$$ at the top of the homepage.$)$ It contains $12,500$ pictures of cats and $12,500$ of dogs, with different resolutions.

Step $1$: Load and preprocess the image data with NumPy.