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- Jeff


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Fergal Byrne
<[email protected]>wrote:

> I'm getting the same. Google hangouts says the hangout is full.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Pete Cumberland 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> The Hangout is full it seems, so I’ll have to stick to the YouTube feed.
>>
>> Thanks for doing this!
>>
>> Pete
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12 Nov 2013, at 23:53, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Hangout: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/7ecpjh57bqs47e27f1hqkkcdps
>> > YouTube: http://youtu.be/rSpYyUN4iP0
>> > ---------
>> > Matt Taylor
>> > OS Community Flag-Bearer
>> > Numenta
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> At this office hour[1], Subutai is going to lead us through the "CLA
>> >> Quiz". We'll focus on the spatial pooler. The questions are below.
>> >> Bring your brains!
>> >>
>> >> **Spatial Pooler / SDR Questions**
>> >>
>> >> 0) Is an untrained CLA spatial pooler just a “random hash” (random
>> >> mapping from input to output vector)?  Why or why not? What happens to
>> >> the output of the spatial pooler if you randomly change one bit in the
>> >> input.
>> >>
>> >> 1) Can you do spatial pooling with small numbers?  For example, is it
>> >> reasonable to have an SP with 20 columns? If not, why are large
>> >> numbers important in SDR's?
>> >>
>> >> a) What's the difference between picking "5 columns out of 50" vs "50
>> >> out of 500"?  Both have 10% sparsity.
>> >>
>> >> b) What's the difference between picking "50 out of 100" vs "50 out of
>> >> 1000"? Both will output 50 1's.
>> >>
>> >> 2) Suppose the input vector (input to the SP) is 10,000 bits long,
>> >> with 5% sparsity. What is the right value of coincInputPoolPct? How do
>> >> you figure this out?
>> >>
>> >> 3) How does the SDR representation of input A in isolation, and input
>> >> B in isolation, compare with the SDR representation of input A
>> >> overlapped with B?  Alternatively, how does the representation of a
>> >> horizontal line and the representation of a vertical line compare with
>> >> the representation of a cross?
>> >>
>> >> 4) Suppose we have an input vector that is 10,000 bits long.  Suppose
>> >> the spatial pooler has 500 columns, of which 50 are active at any
>> >> time.
>> >>
>> >>     a) Can we distinguish many patterns, or a small number? Which
>> >> patterns are likely to be confused?
>> >>
>> >>     b) What happens to the SDR representation if we add noise to the
>> patterns?
>> >>
>> >>     c) What happens if we add occlusions?
>> >>
>> >> 5) What are disadvantages of SDR's?
>> >>
>> >> 6) How does online learning happen in the SP?
>> >>
>> >> ---------
>> >> Matt Taylor
>> >> OS Community Flag-Bearer
>> >> Numenta
>> >>
>> >> [1]
>> https://plus.google.com/b/100642636108337517466/events/crmrf6k58s77hlgk4v30bll8hp8
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