Prologue
I came across the concept of Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) and its implementation a while ago, and am still very fascinated about this approach to artificial intelligence.
When, about one year ago, the active development shifted towards the community fork named htm.core, which supports Python 3, it became finally time to have a closer look and try it out by myself.
BTW: According to this forum post, there are no plans to upgrade the older NuPIC library to Python 3.
A lot of documentation about the theory of HTM is available at numenta.org… more