Anyone have experience with Nengo?
https://www.nengo.ai/
Looks interesting.
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Bitking
December 26, 2019, 5:22pm
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A little background:
Neural Engineering Object (Nengo) is a graphical and scripting software for simulating large-scale neural systems. As Neural network software Nengo is a tool for modelling neural networks with applications in cognitive science, psychology, Artificial Intelligence and neuroscience.
Some form of Nengo has existed since 2003. Originally developed as a Matlab script under the name NESim (Neural Engineering Simulator), it was later moved to a Java implementation under the name NEO, and then eventuall...
What can you do with it?
Spaun ("Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network") is a cognitive architecture pioneered by Chris Eliasmith of the University of Waterloo Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience. It consists of 2.5 million simulated neurons organized into subsystems that resemble specific brain regions, such as the prefrontal cortex, basal ganglia, and thalamus. It can recognize numbers, remember them, figure out numeric sequences, and even write them down with a robotic arm. It is implemented using Ne
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Nengo looks very cool. I haven’t played with it.
I am interested in design of simulation development environments like this where code and visualizations can become integrated with pluggable inputs and outputs.
I think these types of IDE things are the future of Numenta applications. IFF there is little or no set up, and there are cool demos for people to browse and share.
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Interesting and timely as I was looking for neuron simulators to learn NS in a more interactive way. I found this https://neuron.yale.edu/neuron/ , I’ve only read about it yet.
I will have a look at Nengo, looks cool.
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I think this old debate in the nengo forums will interest you
Continuing a discussion I was having on Hacker News, since topics there get closed after they are too old and this is a discussion that might still be worth having in public. What we’ve covered so far. What Nengo has been used for. The relation...
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