Outstanding! Thanks so much Stewart, Rik, and Francisco! I just love hearing about things like this. I like your suggestions as well. --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Stewart Mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a follow up. > > This meetup was one of the best nights we've had at our hackerspace. > > Rik gave a wonderful talk encompassing the ideas of nupic and you'll never > guess who emailed me 2 hours before the talk. Francisco Webber happened to be > in town. > The night was intense to say the least. > > Walk away points: > > NuPIC needs: > * a canonical paper detailing the current implementation and theory of NuPIC, > something that gives a language for developers to talk to each other. > Something that puts a very clear goal into the minds of all participants. > Something up to date, in black and white, we can point to and say 'that' on > page 6, for example. > * a framework to determine change efficacy to cortical learning algorithms. > > This gives us the community a strong rudder to direct a growing community. If > we don't do this, I fear lead thinkers might be disenchanted and disengage > from the community. We absolutely have to keep these guys engaged, focused > and growing. Quick feedback via testing framework enables this, quick > effecnive changes to algos is achieved by deeply understanding theory > delivered in the (white)paper. It also allows implementers to be able to > communicate with the thinkers. > > Other community adoption strategies such as nupic-core, API documentation > (the list Matt extracted from the community) are important. But without the > above two over arching guiding criteria, we, as a community will start to > develop bad scientific habits. This inturn causes frustration in the lead > thinkers. Matt's job becomes harder, developers go on their own mission and > become content to just hack and have fun. The project stagnates, prediction > quality doesn't improve. > > Might I make a proposition? May I literally lock the lead thinkers in a room > for a week to nail this document down? Might you guys and gals get on a plane > somewhere, not just numenta folk but core community members (this _firmly_ > includes Francisco) and have a high bandwidth discussion nailing it. This > document can only be formed by you guys which _also_ includes ways of testing > NuPIC. Once we have this in place, we can start to learn the language and > then forge a testing framework and this'll certainly help with the nupic-core. > > Thank you to Francisco for that wonderful talk, you really opened my eyes to > quite a few important things. I certainly hope to see Rik and Francisco again! > > Any other nupic'ers traveling through town are welcome to stay with me. Don't > be shy to ask! > > > Kind regards > Stewart > > -- > Please excuse my typos and brevity > > _______________________________________________ > 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
