Although I use SO almost daily for solving programming problems, I somehow dont see advantage to our ML and/or ctrl+f on a FAQ wiki page.. Btw, the wiki has plenty of places to improve..feel free to edit it anybody! :)
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > I've like the idea of StackOverflow, in fact I've looked into it in the > past. The thing about getting a dedicated StackExchange section is that > there needs to be ample evidence of interest first. The Area51 crew are not > going to approve a NuPIC site without a large community of active > supporters. I was planning on moving in this direction once we've grown a > bit more. It's not easy to get an Area51 proposal into a SO site, for > example, Arduino is still in the proposal stage ( > http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/58150/arduino). > > The best place to start is on the main stackoverflow site itself. > > How about this... > > There are no questions tagged with "nupic" at this point, which is great > because we have an empty namespace to occupy: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nupic > > I welcome anyone with a technical question about NuPIC to post it on > http://stackoverflow.com with the tag "nupic". It would also be a good > idea (at least initially) to post a link to your question on the mailing > list until we built up enough steam on SO that it is consistently monitored > by the community. > > Any volunteers? > > --------- > Matt Taylor > OS Community Flag-Bearer > Numenta > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Mark Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A wiki is an awesome idea! Numenta, how about it? I think this is >> something that would benefit you too. I too have been struggling to get >> started. There is much you have to discover the hard way. >> >> For a Stackoverflow style of site, how about..... Stackoverflow! At >> least initially anyway. If that is popular then we could propose a nupic >> version at http://area51.stackexchange.com/ and get our own StackNupic. >> I definitely agree that this style of site is much more useful than trying >> to search mail lists. >> >> Let's start asking and answering questions there and see how it goes. >> >> Cheers >> Mark >> >> >> On 7 November 2013 19:18, Sergey Cleftsow <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello everybody! >>> >>> It seems that as the community grows the problem of being a good >>> documentation and stuff which can help to learn NuPIC becomes more >>> important. For example I personally resolved my problem of installing >>> NuPIC just accidentally by getting an advice from one of friends. The >>> solution was buried in depth of many posts and I didn’t aware about >>> it. Now I have a very useful experience which could help other >>> members. But where should I publish it to make it easy to get by them? >>> If I write to the mailing list it may be the same case. Of course >>> there are other great places — wiki, Youtube channel, but they have >>> own limitations. >>> >>> So here is an idea to build some kind of a learning center (let’s call >>> it “NLH” — NuPIC Learning Hub). Every member of community may >>> contribute to NLH by adding own answers to questions which were asked >>> by other members if he/she has a time and/or such a willing. Gradually >>> those answers may form stuff for a comprehensive documentation for the >>> NuPIC platform. It may be some single site or may be a section on >>> Numenta.org (or some another place). Making a prototype of NLH is >>> considered not a very sophisticated task so I can do it because >>> web-development is my common job (of course if somebody wants to help >>> me it will be great also). >>> >>> This is the idea in short. Speaking more detailed: >>> >>> I suggest there may be 2 main section. First is a “Documentation”, >>> which is in essence the standard pages describing the platform, its >>> methods, OPF and so on. Users can add comments to published stuff. >>> There are lots of examples in the Net (consider php.net or something >>> of this kind). Of course, the problem is that this demands enormous >>> efforts (time in the first turn). So in order to make it much more >>> easier there is a second sections which should look more like a >>> Stackoverflow (of course it’s hardly to hope that it will have the >>> same functionality from the very beginning, but I guess it isn’t >>> necessary yet). I.e. any community member may leave own question while >>> other members who possesses an answer may create it there. All the >>> questions may be ranked by users who votes by a standard way (+/-). So >>> after any question got an enough answers or rank it may be used as a >>> basics for the “official” stuff in the “Documentation” sections. It >>> means that Admin (Moderator and so on, there may be few of them) >>> converts it to the article and places it in the section mentioned >>> above. In that section may be “empty” articles, i.e. they have only a >>> title, but have no content. However this title is a link to the page >>> containing a question dedicated to the subject and answers added by >>> community members (i.e. the second section). After an article being >>> filled by stuff made of members’ answers there a link to the page >>> which contained those answers to see the history of question will be >>> added. >>> >>> So as a rule we have one of two things: an official article in the Doc >>> section or “unofficial” page with the ranked question and answers >>> (probably ranked also) to it. >>> >>> Of course, there may be lots of other interesting things and we can >>> consider all of them after if the community will be interested by the >>> idea. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> SY Sergey V. Cleftsow >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > > -- Marek Otahal :o)
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