Hi all, I'm Marcus. >From college until September 19th of this* year (~4 years), I worked at >Microsoft, on Windows and IE. My work didn't overlap with Machine >Intelligence, but it led me to it. As I tackle problems, I try to see through >to the fundamental forces that I'm up against. As I built UI, infrastructure, >etc., I realized that the main reason software sucks is that it doesn't know >what it's doing. And, as you all know, it's possible for a machine to know >what it's doing -- the proof-of-concept already exists. After realizing this, >I found Jeff's work and subscribed to this list within a few hours. I plan to continue lurking and learning. For my own education I'm a huge fan of Numenta's openness, but I'm still a little worried that this type of research deserves Manhattan Project-esque secrecy, just in case. So I lurk self-righteously :). On this issue, I'm not confident in either direction, and I hope to change that. I was at the May 2014 hackathon, then I dived back into my MSFT work for a final sprint. Now I'm just living in downtown Seattle, with my bank account as an hourglass, while I study machine learning and neuroscience. I'm still in my early days.
*Not a typo. Shh :) > From: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:54:57 -0700 > Subject: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > To: [email protected] > > 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 >
