Matt,

Just viewed the Sine wave tutorial - great job. That helps explain the
process a lot.

Just one point of confusion however. Where did the nupic_output.py file
come from? I scanned the repository and don't see it anywhere.

Thanks,
Dean



On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> Subutai said that the ScalarEncoder should do better than the
> AdaptiveScalarEncoder. And the RDSE will probably be the same as the
> Scalar. Apparently, there are some manual things that need to be done in
> order to allow the swarm process to include the RDSE in the pso parameters.
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> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Chetan Surpur <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> My guess is that since the sine wave has a fixed range, the ScalarEncoder
>> would work as well or better than the AdaptiveScalarEncoder.
>>
>> As for the RDSE, I believe you also need to specify the 'resolution'
>> parameter (also, a couple of the parameters you specified are not
>> necessary).
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, the swarm picked a ScalarEncoder, but I wonder why it didn't pick
>>> the AdaptiveScalarEncoder or the RDSE. I'm not very familiar with swarms,
>>> so I'm not sure. When I tried to replace the "ScalarEncoder" in the
>>> model_params.py file with "RandomDistributedScalarEncoder", I got this
>>> message:
>>>
>>> Error in constructing RandomDistributedScalarEncoder encoder. Possibly
>>> missing some required constructor parameters. Parameters that were provided
>>> are: {'maxval': 1.0, 'name': 'sine', 'minval': -1.0, 'clipInput': True,
>>> 'n': 427, 'w': 21}
>>>
>>> It worked ok when I used "AdaptiveScalarEncoder", however, so this makes
>>> me wonder if the swarming process will include the RDSE as a possibility or
>>> not?
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>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Fergal Byrne <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Great question Hideaki. I have a feeling it's using the old scalar
>>>> encoder, which only has a small number of SDR's. It'd be interesting to
>>>> re-run that with the RDSE set to a finer resolution (Chetan?).
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Fergal Byrne
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Hideaki Suzuki <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thank you Matt,
>>>>> This is a really cool tutorial!
>>>>>
>>>>> I was wondering what was causing prediction gaps and what can bring
>>>>> better precision...  turning off/down SP boosting?  Anyway, that is a
>>>>> different issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> The screencast is definitely easy to understand for me.  Nice. :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2014-03-21 11:41 GMT+09:00 Matthew Taylor <[email protected]>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Subutai and I have been working on some examples of using NuPIC to
>>>>>> predict sine waves, which is a common task NuPIC newbies attempt when
>>>>>> experimenting.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> He has put together an example that walks through several examples of
>>>>>> swarming with sine wave data step by step:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/subutai/nupic.subutai/tree/master/swarm_examples
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And I have created a screencast that goes over programmatic swarming
>>>>>> and model creating using sine data:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuFfm3ncEwI
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I hope this helps some of you trying to figure out different ways of
>>>>>> using NuPIC. Enjoy!
>>>>>>
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