Hi John
> I think visualisation is very important to understand what the HTM does
so this will really help newcomers especially. The current experience of
using NuPIC at the command line is that it is too black box IMO and the
user does not get any feel for the neural net behaviour.
>One thing I would have liked to see is a native Windows version as it
appears to only be compatible with Linux at the moment? While NuPIC is a
library of Python functions and classes it seems to me NuStudio is more
like an self-contained, GUI-based application program and as such it should
have a 1-click installation procedure and then run from the Start Menu (or
Mac equivalent). I think this would improve take up hugely if you could do
it. Then NuStudio becomes a software "product" rather than library (which
is what NuPIC itself is)
Marek has suggested we remove c++ stuff from python spatial pooler and so
we have a pure python implementation. Once this is done, hopefully NuPIC
Studio already could run on Windows taking in account that all components
like numpy, scipy, pyqt4, etc, (theorically) are Windows compatible. And
yes, this GUI interface that you mentioned is the essence. An user simply
could type "nustudio" in his shell and voilà: in a few seconds he has the
power of NuPIC brought by NuPIC Studio (without need code anything)!. The
future plan is create a desktop icon for it. I don't think i'ts a dificul
job, but I haven't tried yet.
> (I realize you are constrained by the underlying NuPIC libs which seem to
be highly Unix specific. Never quite understood why however, as C++ and
Python are both -- obviously! -- available in Windows)
This is a tricky issue that is involving an incremental work. It started
with me, then Utensil went deeper on this, now hopefully Richard Crowder
will finalize it (at least, NuPIC C++ code). Althought Python and C++ are
Windows compatible in theory, in the pratice this doesn't happen. Some
default libraries are native from Unix, so some directives are needed to
alternate to Windows headers. Furthermore, there are issues not detected by
a compiler like path separators ("/" is used for Unix file paths while "\"
is used for Windows) among other others!
> And yes, to echo other people, you absolutely DO need a tutorial! I would
suggest make a video tutorial as this takes less time.
The tutorial is almost done, David and Fergal are helping to review it!!
And about the video tutorial, only a God of the Tools such as guy called
"Matt Taylow" could helped with this. If he find some time for this, it
would nice!
Keep an eye on these news ahead!
David
On 16 September 2014 07:27, John Blackburn <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Congratulations on getting this working. I think visualisation is very
> important to understand what the HTM does so this will really help
> newcomers especially. The current experience of using NuPIC at the command
> line is that it is too black box IMO and the user does not get any feel for
> the neural net behaviour. I have not had a chance to try but will do so
> shortly.
>
> One thing I would have liked to see is a native Windows version as it
> appears to only be compatible with Linux at the moment? While NuPIC is a
> library of Python functions and classes it seems to me NuStudio is more
> like an self-contained, GUI-based application program and as such it should
> have a 1-click installation procedure and then run from the Start Menu (or
> Mac equivalent). I think this would improve take up hugely if you could do
> it. Then NuStudio becomes a software "product" rather than library (which
> is what NuPIC itself is)
>
> (I realize you are constrained by the underlying NuPIC libs which seem to
> be highly Unix specific. Never quite understood why however, as C++ and
> Python are both -- obviously! -- available in Windows)
>
> And yes, to echo other people, you absolutely DO need a tutorial! I would
> suggest make a video tutorial as this takes less time.
>
> John.
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:39 AM, David Ragazzi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello NuPICers!
>>
>> Just for inform that in all these days I was out, I was creating an a
>> tool that I believe will be a breakthrough for the community. This tool
>> calls "NuPIC Studio", or just NuStudio. NuStudio is an all-in-one tool
>> that allows users create a HTM neural network from scratch, train it,
>> collect statistics, and share it among the members of the community. It is
>> not just a visualization tool but an HTM builder, debugger and laboratory
>> for experiments. It is ideal for newbies with little intimacy with NuPIC
>> code as well as experts that wish a better productivity. Among its features
>> and advantages I list:
>> - Users can open, save, or change their "HTM projects" or of other
>> developers. A typical project contains data to be trained, neural network
>> configuration, statistics, etc, which can be shared to be analysed or
>> integrated with other projects.
>> - The HTM engine is the own original NuPIC libray (Python distribution).
>> This means no port, no bindings, no re-implementation, etc. So any changes
>> in the original nupic source can be immediatedly viewed. This helps users
>> that wish test improvements like new encoders or even hierarchy, attention,
>> and motor integration.
>> - The project is pip-installable and for desktop use.
>>
>> Project details:
>> - All code is implemented in Python. When I say "all code", I really mean
>> that code like GUI, 3d simulation, etc, are writen in Python and use
>> open-source and cross platform components.
>> - All GUI stuff (forms, controls, etc) is implemented in PyQT. PyQT is
>> the version of the famous QT adapted for python apps, which is open-source,
>> cross-platform, complete, and very easy to code and change.
>> - All utilities like XML serialization, canvas 2d, etc, also are
>> implemented in PyQT.
>> - A front-end object-oriented layer also written in Python is provided in
>> order to ease the understanding of the NuPIC code and keep backwards
>> compatibility. This means that someone with less experience in NuPIC could
>> re-use this front-end in her projects.
>>
>> The project's site is:
>> https://github.com/DavidRagazzi/nupic.studio
>>
>> and you can see some screen-shots attached to this message.
>>
>> Surely it still is not 100%, and it's expected that some installation
>> issues arise, but I hope optimize the process as soon as possible. By the
>> way, it works reasonably well and any people is welcome to try it or even
>> improve it.
>>
>> I look forward for your feedback, it is very important!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David
>>
>> --
>> David Ragazzi
>> MSc in Sofware Engineer (University of Liverpool)
>> Try NuPIC Studio! https://github.com/DavidRagazzi/nupic.studio
>> --
>> "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."
>>
>
>
--
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."
