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New Serialization Plan

Serialization is an important part of NuPIC. Saving trained models is important for sharing in the community and also for many potential applications. The important aspects are: Speed - we want to be able to save to and load from disk as fast as possible. Durability - a model should be completely identical after deserialization to the model that was saved. In some cases there are data structures in memory for optimization purposes that do not need to be included in the serialized state. This…