Hi everyone! I recently heard about HTM and I’m really hyped about it. To facilitate my learning, I want to program a complete (but mini) version on my own and test it on a sample problem. I have tons of questions! Any advice or discussion you can offer is really appreciated.
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What is a good dataset to start with to test basic SP and TM functionality on? I have some familiarity with the MNIST dataset so that’s what I default to usually, but I wonder if that may be too complex for a beginner.
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I went through the HTM school videos so I know the basic architecture of HTM, but I wonder what are the typical values for the various numeric parameters in the model? These were of course not given in the videos. I.E. permanence update rate, overlap thresholds, etc.
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Practical issues: I’m not sure a priori how CPU-intensive the HTM learning process will be–will a typical home laptop be capable of even running it?
Thanks for reading this far! If you can help me out, thanks again for that as well! I will probably reward your kindness with additional questions