I would classify those as more honest (albeit blunt) than rude. Realistically, HTM/CLA hasn’t earned its stripes yet but that’s what we’re trying to do as a community.
Unfortunately, there’s a lot of ‘going with the flow’ in the efforts I’ve been aware of. A more critical approach is necessary on our part as a community. There are very well known benchmarks any algorithm like CLA needs to perform well on and, at this point, it should be an utmost priority for us to put CLA through its paces and start to validate its claims rather than accept them at face value. I think it would be great if a part of the community took it upon itself to do just that (I’d be the first to volunteer!). Focus on breaking down CLA into its individual components and validating the theories on those levels. Not only does that grant it merit should its claims hold true but it’ll also reveal a lot of ways in which it can be improved or optimized. best, Nick On May 19, 2014, at 12:25 PM, Fergal Byrne <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yann LeCun (Director of AI Research at Facebook) gave a fascinating AMA on > Reddit [1] a few days ago. > > As usual, a few people asked him about Jeff, HTM, Numenta and NuPIC. As > usual, his answers varied from the somewhat complimentary [2] to the > downright rude [3]. > > The whole AMA is well worth reading, but I was wondering what people here > think about the scorn many leading lights in Machine Learning and AI heap on > HTM/CLA. > > > [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/25lnbt/ama_yann_lecun/ > [2] > http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/25lnbt/ama_yann_lecun/chisjsc > [3] > http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/25lnbt/ama_yann_lecun/chj9pwm > > -- > > 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
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