Not a bad idea. What do others think? I have no opinion, but looking at Subutai and Scott for their input... --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Fergal Byrne <[email protected]> wrote: > > In light of Jeff's new ideas about Temporal Pooling, every time we mention > the current Temporal Pooler (TP) in NuPIC, we now have to use a qualifier > like "the old Temporal Pooler" or "the thing we mistakenly called Temporal > Pooler, but what we'll be now be calling Sequence Memory". > > Since the current TP in fact only does a single timestep prediction, and > since everyone calls it the TP (in code, in docs, on the lists etc), > changing from "TP" to some other acronym will be slow, painful and > error-prone, my suggestion is to keep the initials but switch the name to > "Temporal Prediction" or (if you want a more active name) "Temporal > Predictor". > > This name sheds anything about temporal pooling, and more correctly > describes the single thing it does - predict the SP(s) one step ahead using > recent temporal context. > > If we can reach a consensus about this (or please provide a better > alternative!), we should implement it now in NuPIC before nupic.core goes to > API release, and before Jeff's new Temporal Pooler begins to appear in > software. > > -- > > Fergal Byrne, Brenter IT > > Author, Real Machine Intelligence with Clortex and NuPIC > https://leanpub.com/realsmartmachines > > Speaking on Clortex and HTM/CLA at euroClojure Krakow, June 2014: > http://euroclojure.com/2014/ > and at LambdaJam Chicago, July 2014: http://www.lambdajam.com > > http://inbits.com - Better Living through Thoughtful Technology > http://ie.linkedin.com/in/fergbyrne/ - https://github.com/fergalbyrne > > e:[email protected] t:+353 83 4214179 > Join the quest for Machine Intelligence at http://numenta.org > Formerly of Adnet [email protected] http://www.adnet.ie > > _______________________________________________ > 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
