[eihli]

"Everyone researcher I know who tried to make HTM work came away with the same conclusion"

Is there anything you can share with this? I'd like to read more about how and why researchers came to that conclusion. Thanks.

[musingsole]

I was a graduate researcher implementing HTM in a hardware accelerator. The largest problem is there was never any sort of specification for HTM outside of a white paper that only vaguely described it's internal structures. And the picture the white paper painted is a design with N^N different hyperparamaters.

Oh, and then the whole thing output a jumble of meaningless bits that had to be classified, an algorithm Numenta kept hidden away as the secret sauce...but if you have to use a NN classifier to understand the results of your HTM... Too many red flags of snakesoil. And I really wanted it to work. Doesn't help that Jeff Hawkins has largely abandoned HTM for new cognitive algorithm pursuits.