Hi Everyone, Fellow lurker here. I am a software developer by day doing "full stack development" for a range of companies. I have been interested in bio-inspired computing systems for long time and started following Jeff/Numenta's work after reading On Intelligence.
This year I set one of my goals to contribute more to the open source community. I started by creating a Go port of Nupic ( https://github.com/zacg/htm). Regards, Zac Gross On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 1:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send nupic mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe, visit > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nupic digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! (Alexander Hirner) > 2. Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! (David Ragazzi) > 3. RE: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > (Spyros Vassilaras) > 4. Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > (Anubhav Chaturvedi) > 5. Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! (Celeste Baranski) > 6. Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > (Matthew Lohbihler) > 7. Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! (John Blackburn) > 8. Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! (Matthew Taylor) > 9. Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! (Yuwei Cui) > 10. Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! (Kevin Martin) > 11. RE: We're back in business, introduce yourself! (Marcus Lewis) > 12. Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > (Matthew Lohbihler) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:17:39 +0200 > From: Alexander Hirner <[email protected]> > To: "NuPIC general mailing list." <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Hi there! > > I?m currently writing my Thesis on the GLXP 1) at the University of > Business and Economics in Vienna. I also head the Ethereum group there 2) > and met the guys from cortical.io during the ?prototype' hackathon in > July. Big shouts, you are awesome! > > CLA will create a bunch opportunities. Among the many, I?m particularly > keen on: Business Intelligence, Industrial Process Control and social > sciences. The latter because it?s a sophisticated, yet ?objective? method > for inference, construct validation and possibly grounded theory > development. > > Btw, you guys should maybe talk to Splunk 3). The anomaly detection > feature of their API gained significant traction recently. At least > according to an employee. > > Thx Numenta for creating this awesome community. > > 1) http://www.googlelunarxprize.org > 2) https://www.ethereum.org > 3) http://www.splunk.com > > Alex > > > > On 29.08.2014, at 16:54, 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 > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:21:05 -0300 > From: David Ragazzi <[email protected]> > To: "NuPIC general mailing list." <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > Message-ID: > < > cab-x0cmkcl-jn4x4qnun-09wrqkt9nff-sj6eaqiayty+5j...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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." > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.numenta.org/pipermail/nupic_lists.numenta.org/attachments/20140829/f83737e4/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:21:12 +0000 > From: Spyros Vassilaras <[email protected]> > To: NuPIC general mailing list. <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > Hello everyone, > > > I am an Assistant Professor with AIT a small private institute in Athens, > Greece. My main research focus is in wireless networks of all kinds. > > I found out about Numenta several years ago from an article in IEEE > Spectrum that immediately caught my attention. Back in 2009, I proposed and > supervised a Master Thesis on Traffic Anomaly Detection using NuPIC (I can > send the Thesis to anyone that is interested). Unfortunately, I didn't have > the time and resources to continue this work since then. It was very > interesting to find out that this has now become the first commercial > application of Grok! > > Currently, I am working with a student in collaboration with an expert MD > on using NuPIC for analyzing medical vital signs for diagnosis of medical > conditions and early warnings on abnormal incidents. We are at the first > stages of this work. I will let you know if we get some promising results. > > > Take care, > > Spyros > > > Spyros Vassilaras, PhD > Assistant Professor > Broadband Wireless and Sensor Networks Group > Athens Information Technology Center for > Research and Education > 0.8 km Markopoulou Ave., P.O. Box 68, > 190 02, Peania, Greece > URL: http://www.ait.gr/ait_web_site/faculty/svas/vassilaras.html > <../../owa/redir.aspx?C=nC_ddNMWpUqUPJlD7ou_Di5E2b6WOs4IqDytb2OUmtW_f2OcySJ9xRbSjZtjvlyNz8XlOYtc3DM.&URL=http%3a%2f% > 2fwww.ait.gr%2fait_web_site%2ffaculty%2fsvas%2fvassilaras.html> > Tel: +30 210 668-2757 Fax: +30 210 668-2703 > E-mail: [email protected] > > ________________________________ > From: nupic <[email protected]> on behalf of Paulo Mint > Labs <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 6:46 PM > To: Spyros Vassilaras > Subject: Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > > Hi guys and gals, > > I'm not a very active contributor to the list, but I'm keeping an eye and > trying to make time/resources to play around! > I'm Paulo, software engineer and Portuguese, always was fascinated by > these brains of ours, intelligence, and let's call it AI. I'm a software > engineer, started with BASIC when I was like 7 years or something. Then I > did a PhD in Netherlands in neuroimaging - diffusion MRI and all of that. > Now in Barcelona co-founded a start-up on neuroimaging analysis and > beyond, and I think NuPIC can have a very interest potential here. > Ah, I do partner acrobatics :) > > Cheers, > Paulo > > > ~ > > Paulo Rodrigues, PhD, CEO > Ronda de Sant Pere 13 - Pl. 3 - 1 > 08010 Barcelona, Spain > Mob. +34 633 817 514 > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > www.mint-labs.com<http://www.mint-labs.com/> > > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]<mailto: > [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 > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.numenta.org/pipermail/nupic_lists.numenta.org/attachments/20140829/861f15ad/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:51:06 +0530 > From: Anubhav Chaturvedi <[email protected]> > To: "NuPIC general mailing list." <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > Message-ID: > < > cabiepeop+dxb6cmasnkzsp3aefebmddqpv4ohahgy9za2em...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi NuPIC, > > I am a final year Computer Science undergraduate student. I have always > loved breaking and making things and computers just gave me all the freedom > to explore. I am more interested in knowing about how things work and how > can I apply my learning to make life easier, specially if it is > interdisciplinary. Apart from computers I am interested in Biology, > Physics, Neuroscience and Photography. I got interested in NuPIC late last > year after I came across Jeff Hawkins' Ted Talk and Chetan Surpur's videos. > It has been a lovely journey since then. > > I am new to opensource but it is surprising how cool and encouraging the > NuPIC community is and it has set a very high standard for opensource > communities in my mind. Thanks NuPIC. > > *Regards,* > *Anubhav Chaturvedi* > > *Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani* > KK Birla Goa Campus > > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 8:24 PM, 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 > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.numenta.org/pipermail/nupic_lists.numenta.org/attachments/20140829/39d1fcc6/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:33:50 +0000 > From: Celeste Baranski <[email protected]> > To: NuPIC general mailing list. <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > Message-ID: <d026076d.15e3%[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi all! My name is Celeste Baranski and I recently joined > Numenta as VP engineering. I won?t be > actively contributing to this list very much, but I enjoy reading the > activity ? > it?s helping me to understand what?s going on in the HTM world. I?ve > worked with NuPIC before ? in 2007 I > started a company, called Vitamin D, with several ex-Palm/ Handspring > colleagues, for the purpose of developing on NuPIC. We wrote the Vitamin > D Toolkit (the first > NuPIC developer?s toolkit ? does anyone remember this?) and then did a cool > vision related app before the recession caused us to shut our doors in > 2010. I?m > super excited to be back working on this project ? my role at Numenta is to > help offload Jeff, Subutai, Matt and the team so they can spend more time > on > research and working with the community. > > > > On 8/29/14, 7:54 AM, "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 > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:40:29 -0400 > From: Matthew Lohbihler <[email protected]> > To: "NuPIC general mailing list." <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > Hi all, > > My name is Matthew Lohbihler. I live in Markham, ON, Canada with my wife > and two kids. I was an early fan of On Intelligence, a member of the > Numenta Algorithms Working Group, a web developer who worked on the > original version of Grok, and an AGI tinkerer since the mid-90s. For a > while long ago i seriously thought i would be an opera singer, but > despite great bass notes i couldn't hit a high G, so that career ended > abruptly. And as of yesterday i appear to be a cancer survivor, so yay! > > My current tinkering was inspired by Jeff's talk on sensory-motor > integration (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFazR5yqesk). In particular > i'm working on independently on the "pre-wired behaviour generators", > which i believe will be a crucial part of making SMI work. > > Regards, > Matthew > > > On 8/29/2014 10:54 AM, Matthew Taylor 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 > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.numenta.org/pipermail/nupic_lists.numenta.org/attachments/20140829/6a536110/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:40:37 +0100 > From: John Blackburn <[email protected]> > To: "NuPIC general mailing list." <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > Message-ID: > <CAA0e_Vk+MkHTRo+e60G488GEAGhf6uJKOm-rxCDQBD1= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > My name's John Blackburn from the National Physical Laboratory in London -- > the same place where Alan Turing worked in the 1940s. I've always been > interested in AI and was fascinated by Jeff Hawkins' book On Intelligence. > I have also seen many of his videos which are really inspirational. But > mostly I work as a theoretical physicist so machine learning is a bit of a > sideline. However, I think it's something NPL must (and will) embrace more > in future. I'm interested in HTM due to it's biological plausibility and > potential to create really intelligent robotic animals. I'd love to see a > fully functional robot mouse, but we are still decades away from this > > I'm currently working on a project to use NuPIC to predict data (strain and > temperature) that was measured over a three year period from a concrete > bridge. I'm trying to get anomaly detection results as well. You may have > seen some posts from my summer students, Cavan and Naomi. They've left now > so it's just me continuing the fight to get sensible results. The same > bridge data has already been modelled using another neural net system > called Echo State Networks (ESN). My initial conclusion is that ESN is much > more effective at solving the narrow problem of anomaly detection for the > bridge and much simpler to use. For straightforward time sequence > predictions, I think HTM is a sledgehammer to crack a wallnut. But that's > ok, because it has the ability to help solve a much more important problem: > that of AGI. However, I don't think we'll see anything truly impressive > till we add the sensory motor loop. And I think embodiment is essential for > intelligence: we need robots in the physical world, only then will we see > behaviours that we recognise as intelligent. Eventually I want to see a > child robot growing up, exploring the world, learning to talk and having > memories and personality just like a human. This is the only way a neural > net will ever learn to speak a human language IMO. > > > > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Anubhav Chaturvedi < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi NuPIC, > > > > I am a final year Computer Science undergraduate student. I have always > > loved breaking and making things and computers just gave me all the > freedom > > to explore. I am more interested in knowing about how things work and how > > can I apply my learning to make life easier, specially if it is > > interdisciplinary. Apart from computers I am interested in Biology, > > Physics, Neuroscience and Photography. I got interested in NuPIC late > last > > year after I came across Jeff Hawkins' Ted Talk and Chetan Surpur's > videos. > > It has been a lovely journey since then. > > > > I am new to opensource but it is surprising how cool and encouraging the > > NuPIC community is and it has set a very high standard for opensource > > communities in my mind. Thanks NuPIC. > > > > *Regards,* > > *Anubhav Chaturvedi* > > > > *Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani* > > KK Birla Goa Campus > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 8:24 PM, 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 > >> > >> > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.numenta.org/pipermail/nupic_lists.numenta.org/attachments/20140829/4f97b939/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:44:04 -0700 > From: Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> > To: "NuPIC general mailing list." <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > Message-ID: > <CAJv6nDMGLAhVYJ= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Matthew Lohbihler > <[email protected]> wrote: > > And as of yesterday i appear to be a cancer survivor, so yay! > > I think that deserves celebration! > > --------- > Matt Taylor > OS Community Flag-Bearer > Numenta > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:49:18 -0400 > From: Yuwei Cui <[email protected]> > To: "NuPIC general mailing list." <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > Message-ID: > <CAEsRS5PkX=D0AgSjeAAKJTXtD+Y7fd_D-= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello everyone! > > My name is Yuwei Cui. I did my bachelor degree in quantum physics, and then > decided to pursue a degree in computational neuroscience after reading On > Intelligence. I am currently a PhD candidate at University of Maryland, > studying how the brain work by analyzing recordings of neuron response from > the awake cortex. I just spent a fantastic summer at Numenta as an > algorithm intern, where I got the chance to develop some of the new > algorithms on temporal pooling and sensorimotor inference. I am > super-excited about the progress Numenta and NuPIC has made, and I will > keep contributing to the NuPIC community. > > Bests, > > -- > Yuwei Cui > > Algorithm Internship, Numenta Inc. > > PhD Candidate, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science > > University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742 > > Homepage: http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~ywcui/ > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Celeste Baranski <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi all! My name is Celeste Baranski and I recently joined > > Numenta as VP engineering. I won?t be > > actively contributing to this list very much, but I enjoy reading the > > activity ? > > it?s helping me to understand what?s going on in the HTM world. I?ve > > worked with NuPIC before ? in 2007 I > > started a company, called Vitamin D, with several ex-Palm/ Handspring > > colleagues, for the purpose of developing on NuPIC. We wrote the Vitamin > > D Toolkit (the first > > NuPIC developer?s toolkit ? does anyone remember this?) and then did a > cool > > vision related app before the recession caused us to shut our doors in > > 2010. I?m > > super excited to be back working on this project ? my role at Numenta is > to > > help offload Jeff, Subutai, Matt and the team so they can spend more time > > on > > research and working with the community. > > > > > > > > On 8/29/14, 7:54 AM, "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 > > > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.numenta.org/pipermail/nupic_lists.numenta.org/attachments/20140829/8b0a9acb/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 23:19:37 +0530 > From: Kevin Martin <[email protected]> > To: "NuPIC general mailing list." <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > Message-ID: > <CAJisb+nRso4O5a9tYzctAqq3bYM2X2046H7i6w2CyY_= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi, > > I'm Kevin, a final year computer science student from India. I heard about > Numenta from a newspaper article on cognitive intelligence last February. I > got very excited and started reading. I'm an open source enthusiast and I'm > proud to say that Numenta is the first organization I contributed to (small > spatial pooler hello world example in python). I was accepted into Google > Summer of Code this year and that is when I started becoming a 'lurker', > and I could barely keep up with what's going on in the community. I'm > really excited about what Numenta is doing and will be doing a small > presentation about the CLA and NuPIC in my college soon! > > I fell in love with programming when one of my dad's friends introduced me > to processing 6 years ago (www.processing.org). When I've got nothing else > to do, I like playing video games with lots of swords and arrows and epic > wars (Age of Empires, total war, empire earth, skyrim blah blah blah) > > Keep up the great work, > > Kevin Martin Jose > > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Matthew Lohbihler < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > My name is Matthew Lohbihler. I live in Markham, ON, Canada with my wife > > and two kids. I was an early fan of On Intelligence, a member of the > > Numenta Algorithms Working Group, a web developer who worked on the > > original version of Grok, and an AGI tinkerer since the mid-90s. For a > > while long ago i seriously thought i would be an opera singer, but > despite > > great bass notes i couldn't hit a high G, so that career ended abruptly. > > And as of yesterday i appear to be a cancer survivor, so yay! > > > > My current tinkering was inspired by Jeff's talk on sensory-motor > > integration (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFazR5yqesk). In particular > > i'm working on independently on the "pre-wired behaviour generators", > which > > i believe will be a crucial part of making SMI work. > > > > Regards, > > Matthew > > > > > > On 8/29/2014 10:54 AM, Matthew Taylor 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.numenta.org/pipermail/nupic_lists.numenta.org/attachments/20140829/867b7042/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 11 > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:50:53 -0700 > From: Marcus Lewis <[email protected]> > To: NuPIC general mailing list. <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 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 > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.numenta.org/pipermail/nupic_lists.numenta.org/attachments/20140829/12fff512/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 12 > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:52:00 -0400 > From: Matthew Lohbihler <[email protected]> > To: "NuPIC general mailing list." <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: We're back in business, introduce yourself! > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > Yes, i'll be celebrating for quite a while. :) > > On 8/29/2014 1:44 PM, Matthew Taylor wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Matthew Lohbihler > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> And as of yesterday i appear to be a cancer survivor, so yay! > > I think that deserves celebration! > > > > --------- > > Matt Taylor > > OS Community Flag-Bearer > > Numenta > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.numenta.org/pipermail/nupic_lists.numenta.org/attachments/20140829/5ba56514/attachment.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > > > ------------------------------ > > End of nupic Digest, Vol 16, Issue 50 > ************************************* >
