+1 to Michael. Regards, Dave -- http://about.me/david_wood
> On Mar 12, 2015, at 16:45, Michael Klachko <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] > > <mailto:[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 > >> <https://github.com/numenta/nupic/issues/1920> > >> > >> Thanks, > >> --------- > >> Matt Taylor > >> OS Community Flag-Bearer > >> Numenta > >> > > > > > > > -- > Marek Otahal :o) >
