Michael, that's a great viewpoint. Most of all, I want whoever downloads and installs NuPIC to build successful applications with it. They will definitely be better prepared to do this if they can run sample applications immediately. --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Michael Klachko <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt, I think the first question should be "who is your target audience?" > Who are your most valuable users? Developers, neuroscientists, ML > researchers? Then you should ask "What do I want those users to do with the > code?" Modify it? Extend it? Just run the existing experiments? Create new > experiments? > > Answering "everyone", and "everything" is usually not the best strategy for > product development. > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello NuPIC, >> >> Looking for opinions here. Austin and I were discussing whether to >> include tests and sample applications in the NuPIC binaries [1], so >> when people install via "pip install nupic", they can run tests and >> sample apps like hotgym without having to clone the source code. >> >> What do you think? Do tests and sample apps deserve to be a part of >> the NuPIC binary package? >> >> [1] https://github.com/numenta/nupic/issues/1920 >> >> Thanks, >> --------- >> Matt Taylor >> OS Community Flag-Bearer >> Numenta >> >
