I remember there was something called Nupic Studio. Is it included in this Nupic binary? It seems to me that, considering your stated priority, a user should download the Studio, which should immediately offer to run demos of applications, and then show instructions on what to do next.
One thing I learned when I was selling server monitoring software: don't let users touch the product until they saw the demos, preferably in the cute GUI format. Another thing was: installation should be absolutely fool-proof, and dead simple. We lost a countless number of customers to competitors with inferior products who offered those two things. On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Marek Otahal <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for tests > ? questionable for examples > > I think our audience for binary installs are still people trying out > nupic, so providing them out-of-the box experience. > More advanced users, like ppl installing on embedded etc can remove the > extra files. > > my 2c > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> > >> >> > > > -- > Marek Otahal :o) >
