# HTM Hackers' Hangout - Oct 4, 2019

**URL:** <https://discourse.numenta.org/t/htm-hackers-hangout-oct-4-2019/6663>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** live, community\
**Created:** [October 3, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/htm-hackers-hangout-oct-4-2019/6663 "2019-10-03T21:35:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![rhyolight](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/rhyolight/32/3922_2.png) [@rhyolight](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/rhyolight)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/htm-hackers-hangout-oct-4-2019/6663/1 "2019-10-03T21:35:31Z")

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**9AM Pacific**

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>
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Sorry for the short notice! What else should we talk about? Here is my agenda:

- what the this meeting even about?
- Keeping up with Numenta (quick timeline)
- complain about python 2 EOL
- Cisek and affordances vs objects
- upcoming podcasts
- research update!

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**Author:** ![rhyolight](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/rhyolight/32/3922_2.png) [@rhyolight](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/rhyolight)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/htm-hackers-hangout-oct-4-2019/6663/2 "2019-10-04T15:40:57Z")

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Just a reminder that we’ll start this meeting in about 20 minutes. It is live now if you just want to come chat.

The meeting recording will be available on YouTube later.

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**Author:** ![hsgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/45deac/32.png) [@hsgo](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/hsgo)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/htm-hackers-hangout-oct-4-2019/6663/3 "2019-10-04T15:53:04Z")

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I’m sorry but is there any way to just watch it rather than joining it?

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**Author:** ![rhyolight](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/rhyolight/32/3922_2.png) [@rhyolight](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/rhyolight)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/htm-hackers-hangout-oct-4-2019/6663/4 "2019-10-04T15:53:33Z")

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Not live, sorry. You’ll have to wait for the recording later today.

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**Author:** ![rhyolight](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/rhyolight/32/3922_2.png) [@rhyolight](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/rhyolight)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/htm-hackers-hangout-oct-4-2019/6663/5 "2019-10-04T20:35:18Z")

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Will be available here as soon as it is finished processing:

Sorry to @hsgo! I turned the stream back on because Lucas was available, then Mark joined. ☹

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**Author:** ![Bitking](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/bitking/32/3099_2.png) [@Bitking](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/Bitking)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/htm-hackers-hangout-oct-4-2019/6663/6 "2019-10-04T23:17:21Z")

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Collected Bitking forum ramblings (Yes - shameless self promotion!):

> [@Basic system level diagram of the brain](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/basic-system-level-diagram-of-the-brain/5834/3):
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> You ask some huge questions not easily answered. You are asking about the fundamental operations of the most complicated structure known to mankind. The detailed answers could easily fill volumes of textbooks. I will try to hit the highlights here but but I am warning you ahead of time - while this is a very long post I am leaving very much unsaid and unexplained. Let’s start with your first bulleted item. The thalamus is broadly interconnected with the cortex at all points. Some have describ…

Referenced paper:  
How neurons make meaning: brain mechanisms for embodied and abstract-symbolic semantics - Friedemann Pulvermu ̈ ller  
[https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/pdf/S1364-6613(13)00122-8.pdf](https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/pdf/S1364-6613(13)00122-8.pdf)

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