Hey guys, before we start making any decisions, I want to make sure we
involve Jeff in this discussion, and he is out of the office for the
next 2+ weeks. I suggest we table this for now and return to it when
Jeff can give his opinion (and he *will* have an opinion).

Regards,
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Matt Taylor
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Numenta


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Fergal Byrne
<[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 Hideaki, good points.
>
> I feel using redundant terms across the main functionalities (Memory or
> Pooler) is a waste of characters and obscures the meaning. Also, using
> multiple words hides what is the most important thing. For example:
>
> SP or SpatialPooler would be better as Recogniser or Patterner or
> Representer (1 word), or SpatialRepresenter etc (2 words)
> (old) TP or TemporalPooler   ""   ""  Predictor or ContextPredictor
> (new) Temporal Pooler might be Stabiliser or StableSequencer etc (or just
> Temporal Pooler)
>
>  I like the use of Context in old TP, it does add meaning.
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Hideaki Suzuki <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> +1 for cleaner terms.  Cells4 is confusing for me, too.
>>
>> The core idea of the previous TP is to memorize, IIUC, a chain of
>> "contexts" rather than a mere sequence of inputs, so we can say a 2 is
>> followed by 1 in 1-4-1-4-2 (=sqrt two) while the same 2 is followed by
>> 0 in 1-7-3-2 (=sqrt three).  Cell-column structure (or a mini column?)
>> is the enabler.
>> It would be nice if the new name could express that, too. :-)
>>
>> If we can make the new set and the old set of terms disjoint, the
>> confusion may be less...
>>
>>   old terms:
>>     spacial pooler(SP), temporal pooler(TP)
>>   new term:
>>     spacial pooling memory(SPM), context chaining memory(CCM),
>> temporal pooling memory(TPM)
>>     or spacial pattern pooler (SPP), context pooler (CP), temporal
>> pattern pooler (TPP)
>>
>> Only an idea.
>>
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