Feature/dotdict

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Summary

This PR introduces the dotdict, a simple class that let the user access dict keys with the dot notation. This has been introduced to reduce the access time of the configs (omegaconf.DictConfig and similar) attributes. The main config, after reading it in the cli.py, will be transformed into a dotdict object . The class adds also the __setstate__ and __getstate__ so that the class is pickable (needed for torch.distributed, specially in the decoupled algorithms).

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