Can someone explain which parts of NuPIC they think are "clean" and which
they want to get rid of? With the exception of the current effort around
the spatial pooler I don't know which parts are being referred to.


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Sebastian Hänisch <[email protected]>wrote:

> Some explorative redesigning can be a true benefit to the current NuPIC,
> too. Some coordinated brainstorming can lead to a better design of
> 'NuNuPIC' with an extensive API and a more modular code basis. This would
> be a base for discussion whether a complete restart is the way to go or
> maybe it reveals easy ways to restructure the current version without
> robbing away the base for Grok.
>
> This can be done aside from NuPIC and wouldn't influence it currently
> (though some ideas may find themselve implemented there directly).
>
> As Newcomer to NuPIC I'm just throwing in my 2 cents of course.
>
> Regards,
> Sebastian
>
>
>
> 2013/11/15 Fergal Byrne <[email protected]>
>
>> Hi Matt/Stewart,
>>
>> I think the radical approach is worth exploring, but keep it within
>> NuPIC. You'd need to start with a design, and then build it up by robbing
>> the clean algorithms from the current NuPIC. Eventually Grok would switch
>> to the NuNuPIC.
>> —
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>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Numenta's interests lie
>>> in improving NuPIC. We won't be able to get behind a start-from-scratch
>>> effort. We just don't have the manpower, and we're quite busy building
>>> product on top of NuPIC.
>>>
>>> That being said, there is nothing stopping anyone else from doing this.
>>> If someone extracts our core algorithms and pastes them into another
>>> project, however, the GPL must be respected, and Numenta will not be able
>>> to provide any commercial licensing options.
>>>
>>> ---------
>>> Matt Taylor
>>> OS Community Flag-Bearer
>>> Numenta
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Stewart Mackenzie 
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Been (carefully) thinking about this more, it's occupying a
>>>> disproportionately large amount of time.
>>>>
>>>> I'm going to go one step further:
>>>>
>>>> The proof of concept works, NuPIC has cracked it to a large degree. But
>>>> its based on an old codebase that went through a few fundamental
>>>> architectural changes. It doesn't support serialization nor can operate in
>>>> a hierarchy.
>>>> Most of the issues are about compilation, incompatibilities, the code
>>>> base is dependency heavy yet... despite all this the algorthims have got it
>>>> right.
>>>>
>>>> I propose we retain the core algorithms and start from scratch. Its the
>>>> algorithms that are important.
>>>>
>>>> What I have brewing will make a distributed HTM dramanically easier to
>>>> achieve, serialization becomes trivial and it is portable. If nupic is
>>>> about to do some major move. Then lets at least think about how to make it
>>>> easier to distribute and serialize.
>>>>
>>>> Insane as it sounds.
>>>> Stewart
>>>>
>>>> Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> >Thanks, Stewart.
>>>> >
>>>> >I think we should put the discussion about releases to the side for
>>>> >awhile,
>>>> >because it's evident that we cannot release until we've nailed down the
>>>> >API
>>>> >for NuPIC. This should take priority. I'll start that discussion soon.
>>>> >
>>>> >This has been quite enlightening, and I really appreciate everyone's
>>>> >input.
>>>> >
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