*knock, knock*

uh oh, the Nerd Police are at my door shouting, "Mr. Ray, your geek card
has been revoked!"

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 4:19 PM, cogmission1 . <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Uhm... can you pleez esplain (for us dummies)? I don't get the progression
> or how the rules are used and what they result in?
>
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If anyone wants to play around with it, I've created a python project
>> that can create all elementary cellular automaton easily.
>>
>> https://github.com/rhyolight/automatatron
>>
>> It's truly amazing to me that only about 80 lines of python code can
>> create the whole library of ECAs. It's a testament to the idea that a
>> very simple ruleset can create extraordinarily complex behavior.
>>
>> You can currently use a handler function to get iteration output rows,
>> but I'm going to have to add the ability to stream a subset of columns
>> from a running automata so specific columns can be pushed into NuPIC
>> instead of the entire output (as soon as I find time).
>>
>> ---------
>> Matt Taylor
>> OS Community Flag-Bearer
>> Numenta
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Fergal Byrne
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi Matthew,
>> >
>> > This would be a great demo (Wolfram's CA stuff appeals to most of us
>> nerds).
>> > I predict that if you feed a fixed set of bits into NuPIC, the TM will
>> learn
>> > the rule you've picked and will be able to predict the next pattern for
>> all
>> > but the edge bits (which will be partly random as far as it can tell).
>> I'd
>> > also predict that a single-order TM (one cell per column) will be also
>> able
>> > to do this learning.
>> >
>> > These two predictions come directly from the CLA theory (Subutai can
>> verify
>> > this), so it could be a good integration test for new implementations
>> > (assuming NuPIC matches my predictions, of course!).
>> >
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Fergal Byrne
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Jeff Fohl <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I used to be a bit of a cellular automata nerd. I would be interested
>> in
>> >> seeing what you discover. You could also possibly just feed in the
>> values
>> >> for the center column of rule 30 - though that has been shown to be
>> highly
>> >> random, so I am not sure what the utility of it would be?
>> >>
>> >> - Jeff
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I've always been fascinated by elementary cellular automata [1]. Some
>> >>> rules produce interesting pseudo-random patterns with repeating
>> >>> features. I think it would be interesting to see if NuPIC can decipher
>> >>> these features from the randomly generated output of the automaton and
>> >>> predict the continuation of partially-developed features. I also
>> >>> wonder what the anomaly scores would say after NuPIC has seen several
>> >>> thousand rows of data.
>> >>>
>> >>> I've put together a *very* simple program [2] to generate the output
>> >>> of Rule 30 [3], but I did it in JavaScript out of habit. I really need
>> >>> it implemented in Python to get decent integration with NuPIC.
>> >>>
>> >>> To feed cellular automaton data into NuPIC, I assume I'll need to
>> >>> choose some number of adjacent columns within the automatons' output
>> >>> (maybe 10 fields?). Each field would be simply binary, and I've got
>> >>> some code in place now that can extract the columns and print them to
>> >>> the console [4].
>> >>>
>> >>> Is anyone else interested in this crackpot idea? I have no idea what
>> >>> any applications might be, I'm just fiddling around. Let me know if
>> >>> you're interested and we can discuss.
>> >>>
>> >>> [1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.html
>> >>> [2] https://github.com/rhyolight/cellular-automata-engine
>> >>> [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30
>> >>> [4] http://youtu.be/TT2-aXrmJ6k
>> >>>
>> >>> Regards,
>> >>> ---------
>> >>> Matt Taylor
>> >>> OS Community Flag-Bearer
>> >>> Numenta
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Fergal Byrne, Brenter IT
>> >
>> > http://inbits.com - Better Living through Thoughtful Technology
>> > http://ie.linkedin.com/in/fergbyrne/ - https://github.com/fergalbyrne
>> >
>> > Founder of Clortex: HTM in Clojure -
>> > https://github.com/nupic-community/clortex
>> >
>> > Author, Real Machine Intelligence with Clortex and NuPIC
>> > Read for free or buy the book at https://leanpub.com/realsmartmachines
>> >
>> > Speaking on Clortex and HTM/CLA at euroClojure Krakow, June 2014:
>> > http://euroclojure.com/2014/
>> > and at LambdaJam Chicago, July 2014: http://www.lambdajam.com
>> >
>> > e:[email protected] t:+353 83 4214179
>> > Join the quest for Machine Intelligence at http://numenta.org
>> > Formerly of Adnet [email protected] http://www.adnet.ie
>>
>>
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