Hi,
my name is David Ragazzi, proudly Brazilian, son of Italian, Portuguese and Jew forefathers. Since I was a child, I’m passionate on Robotics (yeah, due to movies like Matrix and Terminator), however due to life circumstances I had to pursue a IT career. I'm graduated on Business focused on System Analysis and recently I gained a Master degree on Software Engineering. I always loved challenges and help people, because this I found in the computation a way of keep doing these 2 things at same time! After going through a personal crisis related to my current work situation, I came to think about what really matters for I being REALLY happy. It was when I realized that I deviated from my old passion and then I decided to pursue what really matters and makes sense for me. This said, I fell “accidentally” in the neuroscience field, because as many here I feel the most robotics and AI did not follow a biological approach to be design their products. During my personal research, I saw we neither have a theory about intelligence in order to we have robots really intelligent. Then finally, I read about Jeff Hawkins and his work.... and here I am! :-D My contributions to the community: - * Translation of “On Intelligence” to Portuguese. - * Translation of CLA White Paper to Portuguese. - * Full convertion of the NuPIC old build process to CMAKE which decreased complexity and the number of files in the repository. - * Active participation in the efforts to make NuPIC Core independent of NuPIC. - * Active participation in the restructuring of the NuPIC Core repository. - * Active participation in the restructuring of the NuPIC repository. - * Active participation in the efforts to make NuPIC installable with PIP. - and more some activities that I don’t remember.. I think that my next contribution will change the way how lurkers learn and play with NuPIC, but this is a subject that I will give more details only when I have a stable version of my work (very soon). On 29 August 2014 11:54, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello NuPIC, > > Thanks for your patience during this very annoying mailing list > situation. It seems that the dust has settled after migrating to our > own virtual private server, and the lists are back to 100% > functionality. > > ... But that's not good enough for me! I think we should STRESS-TEST > our mailing lists' new home. So here is the plan: I've sent this > message to each of our four mailing lists. Please reply to this > message with a short SELF-INTRODUCTION! I'm especially interested in > hearing from LURKERs who've been reading the lists but never posted. > Let us know you exist, even if it's just a short "hello world!". If > you are an established poster that everyone knows, perhaps you should > share something interesting or unique about yourself that no one on > the list knows. > > Here's mine: > > I spent over four years in the US Air Force working as an intelligence > analyst. I worked to support the B-2 Stealth program, and I trained > pilots about air defense systems, so I know a lot about surface-to-air > missiles. After leaving the Air Force, I worked as a defense > contractor, where I really got into programming mostly in fortran77 > and shell scripts. I had to convince my coworkers to use Java!! Can > you believe that? Anyway, I realized I wanted to dedicate my career to > software development instead of supporting combat operations, so I > left to build code, and I ended up here at Numenta. > > Your turn! > > --------- > Matt Taylor > OS Community Flag-Bearer > Numenta > > -- David Ragazzi MSc in Sofware Engineer (University of Liverpool) OS Community Commiter at Numenta.org -- "I think James Connolly, the Irish revolutionary, is right when he says that the only prophets are those who make their future. So we're not anticipating , we're working for it."
