Thanks! This is actually more what I was looking for. I prefer to follow the approach of learning the biology first.
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Jeff Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Erik,**** > > I have studied this from a neuroscience perspective. The anatomy of the > cortex and how its neurons project to motor areas tells a lot about how the > cortex integrates sense and motor behavior. The two papers below are > typical of the neuroscience literature. Unfortunately they are difficult > to read if you don’t read neuro papers often. There are many papers on > this topic written from a roboticist’s or theorist’s perspective. I don’t > know this literature. Maybe Ian has suggestions for something good to > read. My talk will be about the cortex and CLA.**** > > ** ** > > http://jn.physiology.org/content/90/2/539.full.pdf+html**** > > ** ** > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3657838/**** > > ** ** > > Jeff**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* nupic [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Erik > Blas > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 11, 2013 3:29 PM > *To:* NuPIC general mailing list. > *Subject:* Re: [nupic-dev] Fall 2013 NuPIC Hackathon**** > > ** ** > > This is a great expansion on the previous hackathon! Thanks, Matt.**** > > ** ** > > Jeff, any chance you'd have some articles or papers you'd recommend to get > started on the sensor-motor integration piece? This is the area I'm most > most focusing on with my experimenting, and would appreciate any help in > narrowing the research.**** > > ** ** > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:* > *** > > I've updated the event description: > > http://numenta.org/events.html#november_2013_hackathon > > Now includes: > > **Saturday November 2** > > 02:00 PM: CLA Deep Dive (Subutai Ahmad) > ================================================================= > Subutai Ahmad, Grok/Numenta VP of Engineering, will go into detail > about some of the major components of the CLA, including the Spatial > and Temporal Poolers. This talk will describe the theory behind these > ideas (and others) as well as pointing out the locations within the > NuPIC codebase where they are implemented. If you are interested in > how the CLA within NuPIC works behind the curtains, this is the talk > for you. > > 04:00 PM: Working Session: NuPIC Documentation for ML/AI Researchers > (Ian Danforth) > ================================================================= > Descriptions matter. We’ll be creating a document that describes NuPIC > and CLA in terms that are familiar to academic Machine Learning and AI > researchers. This document will become an entry point for academics > into NuPIC. As we walk through CLA, participants will be asked to > contribute how their field would describe each component, and suggest > relevant citations for similar work. Components and performance > characteristics of CLA which are particularly novel will be > highlighted. > > **Sunday November 3** > > 01:00PM: Sensor-Motor Integration in the Neocortex (Jeff Hawkins) > ================================================================= > Most of the changes on our senses are due, wholly or in part, to our > own actions. Therefore, the neocortex learns a sensory-motor model of > the world. In this talk I discuss some of what we know about how the > neocortex generates behavior and how we might construct a simple > sensory-motor system based on the Cortical Learning Algorithm. It is a > good starting point for anyone wanting to add motor output to the CLA. > I will assume basic understanding of the CLA. > > > I will be recording and live-streaming at least the CLA Deep Dive and > Jeff's Sensor-Motor talk. > > --------- > Matt Taylor > OS Community Flag-Bearer > Numenta > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org**** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > >
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