2014 Fall NuPIC Hackathon Kickoff

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The kickoff presentation.

Software

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• Sessions and demos are being recorded
• No live streaming this time
• You might be caught on tape!
• Please take photos and videos if you wish
(#NupicHack)
• Testimonials?

Hackathon Staffers
Engineers
• Jeff Hawkins
• Subutai Ahmad
• Scott Purdy
• Matt Taylor
• Austin Marshall
• Chetan Surpur
Support
• Teri Fry
• Taylor Wirfs
• Trinity Taylor
• Kyle Quackenbush

Hackathon Resources
• numenta.org/hack/
• Code of Conduct
• Hack registration
• Schedule
• Announcements
• Live Stream

Today’s
Schedule
• 10:00 Kickoff
• 10:30 Install-athon
• 01:00 On the Way to
Language Intelligence
(Francisco Webber –
cortical.io)
• 02:30 Applications of HTM
(Chetan Surpur)

Tomorrow’s
Schedule • 02:00 Whiteboard Learning
Session (Jeff Hawkins)
• 04:00 Hackathon Demos!

Upstairs
3rd Floor Expansion 30 stations, 1 storage, 1 conf. room, 3 offices, co. mtg area
big projector wall
women’s
storage
you are
here
eric summit omid
fooseball
room
bryan
jocelyn
company mtg area
currently rented but have rofr
santhosh
nadia
matt
jon
kalpesh
ankur
patrick
brie
kari vijay
mamta
jervey
natasha
pat
fish bowl scrumroom
don
walid
aziz
men’s
open
open
open open
open
open
open

2nd Floor Existing 30 42 desks, 3 conf. rooms, 8 offices
conf. room
mini kitchen
lobby
server room
derek
puja
open open
open
mother’s
room
lunchroom
kitchen?
open joe greg olivier
mini-scrum
women’s
clayton
chris otfefircree n7ce
ceiling opening
landing
sree
andre
anjini
ayla
elita
tyler
carlos
jamison
ashley
cathy
michelle
ian
albert
juan
nick
larry
open
open open
open
open
open
open
open
open
open
open
margi
tara
andy
men’s
open
open
open
maggie
chris
jon
omar
jennifer
Downstairs
food

Pinger Facility
• Coming and going
• Sleep
• Wifi

Protocol
• Badges
• Food and drink
• Cleanliness
• Respect
• Code of Conduct

Communications
• IRC: #nupic on freenode
• Gitter: https://gitter.im/numenta/public
• Use the mailing lists
• Report bugs
• Spread the word: #NupicHack
– Please take pictures, videos, whatever and share
them

Community Announcements
• “nupic.community” GitHub organization
– clortex
– nupic.studio
– nupic.vision
https://github.com/nupic-community
https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/Other-HTM-CLA-projects

NuPIC Studio, by David Ragazzi
https://github.com/nupic-community/nupic.studio
“create a HTM neural network from scratch, train it, collect statistics, and
share it among the members of the community”

HTM Java Port
• https://github.com/numenta/htm.java
• Author: David Ray (cogmission)
• donated to Numenta for management
• full implementation of
– spatial pooling
– temporal memory
1-to-1 correlation between the methods and functions implementing
each algorithm in the Java and Python versions. To this end, it is
estimated that 98% of the Python tests in each module have the exact
same output produced within the Java unit tests and integration tests.

Audience Questions
• Ever been to a hackathon?
• Ever built NuPIC?
• Ever run any examples?
• Ever passed own data into NuPIC?

Your Ideas
https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/2014-Fall-Hackathon

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