Matt, Very Exciting! :-)
David On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- *With kind regards,* David Ray Java Solutions Architect *cortical.io <http://cortical.io/>* Sponsor of: HTM.java <https://github.com/numenta/htm.java> [email protected] http://cortical.io
