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another form of ML?

Apr 18, 2007 00:18

This is in some sense a cross-post from slash-dot, but I actually followed the link earlier to the website and poked around a bit.

Numenta is a company owned by Palm Computing founder Jeff Hawkins. Hawkins wrote a book called On Intelligence some time back that covers the details of his theories about neo-cortical activity. His model is called ( Read more... )

computer science, machine learning

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garybartos April 18 2007, 23:59:17 UTC

I'll be curious to see how Numenta does in the marketplace. Although they mention the usual wide host of applications for their software (to paraphrase the marketing hype, "it'll solve every problem that can possibly be solved") , perhaps it'll prove most useful in just one or two applied fields. If it takes "months" for users to become acquainted with the concepts (after full-time work? a few hours a week?), I can't imagine they're going to get input from too many researchers who have day jobs. Or maybe they will. Meh. I'll read the white paper and see what's what.

From "A Note from Jeff Hawkings" at
http://www.numenta.com/for-developers/software/note-from-jeff.php:

To begin with, NuPIC includes a set of embedded learning algorithms. The first implementation of these algorithms can solve only a subset of the problems that theoretically can be solved by HTM. For example, although the first release can solve many pattern recognition ( ... )