Sure Matt,

My original suggestion was intended to just get rid of the "old Temporal
Pooler" problem. Until we actually decide on what to change, I suggest we
adopt the notion that "TP means Temporal Predictor" for now.

Regards,

Fergal


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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,
> ---------
> Matt Taylor
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>
>
> 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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Author, Real Machine Intelligence with Clortex and NuPIC
https://leanpub.com/realsmartmachines

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http://euroclojure.com/2014/
and at LambdaJam Chicago, July 2014: http://www.lambdajam.com

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