On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:18 AM, stewart mackenzie <[email protected]>wrote:
> > >> We started with something a lot more complex in 2007 and rewrote it to be >> much simpler. It is a good base from which to evolve. Once we remove the >> Python portion, it will be surprisingly small and light. >> > > Please describe what you had. > In brief, it was a much more complex version of the current Network API. It supported automatic parallelization across a cluster using MPI. A bunch of other features too. Not sure it's worth going into the details, but I can send the old manual if anyone is really interested! > The other reason to do an incremental change is that during 2014 I hope >> we can also work on Jeff’s new ideas. I am hoping the community will >> contribute and help out. I think those ideas will lead to significant >> advances in the science and prospects for intelligent computing, but there >> is much work to do. It will be very difficult to keep multiple code bases >> in sync while simultaneously working on those ideas. >> >> Hopefully Jeff's ideas will go into nupic core. > Yes. And not just at the end. I'd love to see the community actively participate throughout the process of refining and testing the ideas. Having said that, there is nothing stopping anyone from forking and doing >> a major rewrite (per Fergal’s latest email - just saw that while writing >> this). Grok might decide to switch to this once the new implementation is >> ready but we can’t commit to that. >> > > If that happens you'll probably not have copyright. Its never a good idea > to hardfork (from a point of view of community dissatisfaction). It > shouldn't be lightly brought up as a solution (especially from the > custodian) as it could indicate a lack of appreciation towards the > community. A successful open source project has the community. If Nupic > forks and the community goes with the fork, Numenta fails. People use > Libreoffice since last I looked. Also things get nasty, its is a last > resort. A path never taken easily. > I agree. We can't stop it, but it is not desirable. --Subutai
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