On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Jim Bridgewater <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> You are correct.  Thanks for the feedback, I've updated the
> introduction and attached the revised document.
>
> There is still the question of whether these results will hold with
> more active columns and I plan to run that experiment and post the
> results soon.  I am planning to use your Amazon EC2 image for this
> since these jobs can take some time for large numbers of columns.
>
>
Awesome! Let me know if you end up installing tools that you think should
be part of the default AMI.


> For pooling, I want to duplicate the characters in the data set using
> different fonts and see if I can get the spatial pooler to generalize
> between the different fonts.
>
>
>
Looking forward to those results!

Ian




>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Ian Danforth <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Jim,
> >
> >  To be clear you have 186 training examples and 256 columns, 100%
> potential
> > pool and you have 1 column on at a time, so you would expect 100%
> accuracy.
> > Correct? You might want to note this up front. Something like "this
> should
> > be an easy task for the spatial pooler, however certain parameter
> > configurations were found to be problematic."
> >
> > Also I know you know this but for others reading along, to do "pooling"
> the
> > number of training examples needs to be at least > than number of columns
> > and preferably >>. Otherwise each column will perfectly fit a single
> > example. Also you need to test on a separate set of data to see how well
> the
> > model generalizes.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Jim Bridgewater <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I'm working on a NuPIC vision toolkit for the Season of NuPIC this
> >> summer and I've created a GitHub repo for it called nupic.vision.  The
> >> URL is:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/baroobob/nupic.vision
> >>
> >> There is a demo for those who want to try it out.
> >>
> >> I've attached the write up of results from using this toolkit to
> >> investigate the effects of the synapse connection threshold,
> >> synPermConnected, the permanence increment for active synapses,
> >> synPermActiveInc, and the permanence decrement for inactive synapses,
> >> synPermInactiveDec, on image recognition accuracy and the amount of
> >> training required.
> >>
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