I think bundling them with the install would be very useful. If they don't take up a lot of space, then I don't see there being anything negative with including them. I will say, though, that as I slowly learn NuPIC, what has been very helpful has been the iPython notebook + Presentation by Scott Purdy here in the "Beginner's Guide to NuPIC": https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/Using-NuPIC Its very straight to the point, without any extraneous stuff in it, and having the iPython notebook up right next to the presentation really helps. The notebook in general is very helpful because its pretty much a super simple IDE. If you're using Windows, you can even sidestep some of it's limitations by making a Vagrant install of Linux and running the iPython notebook inside it as a mini webserver. Then you can load the notebook in your Window's browser of choice. I don't know how exactly that can be translated into something useful for this thread, but I really think videos + the notebook are a great, great way to learn it. Especially since you can add all the markdown to the notebook and explain certain sections (as Scott did for his). Thanks!
> From: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:07:38 -0700 > Subject: bundling tests & examples with binaries > To: [email protected] > > 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 >
