Hi Fergal,

Thanks for writing this up, it's helpful to see examples of it in action.

For the record, what I presented was initially proposed by Jeff a few
months ago on this mailing list, and it's already implemented in Python
within NuPIC and being used by Grok already.

- Chetan


On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Fergal Byrne
<[email protected]>wrote:

> HI Chetan,
>
> That's brilliant to hear, congrats and enjoy! It's a great sign of a
> community that a contributor can graduate to work full time on the software.
>
> Another great video where the details are presented and everyone gets to
> discuss the implications and alternatives.
>
> When we were discussing this idea last year, I didn't really Grok how it
> worked, so your explanation and the discussion were invaluable in making it
> clear that this is an avenue worth pursuing. I've done a little work on it
> and have produced a short analysis [1] of a first-stab implementation.
> Please take a look and let me know if this is along the lines of your plan.
>
> As Subutai mentioned, this design does not take into account the
> statistics of the data. As mentioned, there is a NonUniformScalarEncoder in
> the python source which has the bits needed for this. I think a combination
> of the two would be a fascinating project.
>
> Regards, and congrats again!
>
> Fergal Byrne
>
> [1] http://fergalbyrne.github.io/rdse.html
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Chetan Surpur <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks everyone! I'm very excited to be here, working with the Numenta
>> team and community on what I consider to be the coolest stuff we could work
>> on :)
>>
>> I hope the presentation helps!
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Francisco Webber <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Congrats Chetan for a great job!
>>> Congrats Numenta for a great addition to the team!
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14.02.2014, at 10:57, Marek Otahal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Great job (literally), Chetan. Congratulations! :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Doug King <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wow, great news. Congrats Chetan.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Jeff Fohl <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Excellent. Congratulations Chetan!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I never announced this, but it should be noted that community-member
>>>>>> Chetan Surpur is now an employee of Numenta! Congrats Chetan!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wednesday, he gave a presentation to the Numenta team about the
>>>>>> new Random Distributed Scalar Encoder in NuPIC, and I recorded it:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q5W2Ov6C9E
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you have comments or questions about the RDSE, please make them
>>>>>> here so we can address them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Enjoy,
>>>>>> ---------
>>>>>> Matt Taylor
>>>>>> OS Community Flag-Bearer
>>>>>> Numenta
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