I really enjoyed the Ladder of Abstraction link (Bret Victor keeps putting out gold). I would LOVE to see interactive tools to visualize and internalize the CLA!
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Ruaridh O'Donnell < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I'm glad to see that nupic is planning on applying for google summer of > code. > I have an idea for a project and I'd like to see what other people > thought of it. > > (Also just dropping in here that I'd be very keen to work on nupic in the > GSoC) > > The fundemental idea behind the project is to help everyone gain a > deep understanding of the CLA algorithm. From my own experience coding > a version of the CLA before nupic (I've been lurking a while) and then > working with nupic, I've found it very hard to develop a deep > understanding of how the algoithm behaves. > > In the past I've tried using various visualisations and built some > myself to help with understanding. However they don't quite do the > algorithm justice and its often still easier to just think things > through in my head. > > So my current (rough) plan is to create tools to help both visualise > and experiment with the CLA interactively. Much like cerebro but > hopefully even more powerful. If your interested, this is the kind of > thing I'm aiming for: http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/ > > If anyone's interested in this then let me know and I could add it to > the project list. > > > Cheers, > Ruaridh O'Donnell > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org >
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