Hey Jeff,
sorry for the late reply, I was out of town for a couple of days.
Am 13.05.2015 um 22:31 schrieb Jeff Fohl:
Hello Ralf -
You might remember from the nupic-hackers mailing list, that I am also
working on an implementation of HTM in Javascript. I have found that
looking at your port, htm.JavaScript, is helping me understand some
concepts. To better understand things, I forked htm.JavaScript and started
tinkering. My preferred JS environment is node.js, so I have been working
on converting htm.JavaScript to work with node.js.
Do you have any interest in getting this to work in node.js? Also, do you
wish to have any help with htm.JavaScript?
I am also interested to hear what your larger goals are for htm.JavaScript.
Best regards,
Jeff Fohl
Actually my focus is on running NuPIC in web browsers. Eventually, I'd
like to create a distributed system/environment where various HTM/CLA
controlled "entities" interact with the environment as well as which
each other (so the sensori-motor stuff Numenta is researching right now
would have to be in place, too).
So the larger goal is some kind of "artificial life platform" where in
the end I hope to see some sort of emerging behaviour. Of course, there
would have to be some evolutionary stuff going on, as well. But one
would *not* need any artificial performance functions like in classical
genetic algorithms. The only hard-coded goal would be to reproduce,
everything else ought to follow/emerge from that due to the learning
abilities of those entities. Once development of the interaction
software starts, node.js might come into play, but that is somewhere
beyond the horizon.
I don't think I need help right now. At this point it's mostly a
straight forward translation job, although one learns to appreciate the
virtues of a statically typed language like Java. Anyway, thanks for the
offer, if you have any suggestions for improvements, feel free to issue
a pull request. At the very least it would give me an opportunity to
learn how that works ;-)
RS
