Hello NuPIC, Based on some discussions we've been having on the nupic-theory mailing list and privately between Fergal, David Ray, Subutai, and myself, the idea came up to create a community repository with the same intention of Numenta's nupic.research repo [1]. Namely, this would be a place for NuPIC hackers to implement new ideas for HTM algorithm changes that extend or override existing objects or functions within NuPIC, much in the same fashion that Numenta researchers are doing in nupic.research.
But while nupic.research is a read-only repository, the community.research repo would be open for anyone interested in trying out new extensions to the HTM algorithms. This could foster some interesting innovations, and will make it much easier to experiment with your ideas than going through the normal contribution process through NuPIC. The hurdle for algorithm changes is high, but once you have proven your idea, you will have a much better footing for making algorithm changes in a pull request to NuPIC and getting them approved. This is the same process that Numenta uses internally with nupic.research, and we think this might work out really well for those of you starting to experiment with algorithm changes, whether you are a contributor to NuPIC or not. We would love to see more community-driven extensions to the algorithms. For more details, please see the README at https://github.com/nupic-community/community.research. [1] https://github.com/numenta/nupic.research Regards, --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta
