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March 22, 2010
Learning NuPIC, Part 1:
Downloading and Installing to a Windows computer
At last it is time for me to start playing with NuPIC (Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing). First I need to get a working copy onto my computer, which is running Windows Vista 32-bit Home Premium on an AMD Athlon dual-core processor.
The main Numenta page is www.numenta.com. From there procede to the NuPIC downloads page. You need to log in, so register if you haven't already done so. The Windows version is 32 bit; there are also Mac and Linux (both 32 and 64 bit) versions available. The Windows version file size is 112 MB, which took my satelite Internet over 20 minutes to download. Then you need NuPIC installation instructions. If you are like me, go straight to Windows NuPIC installation instructions. You also need your license file, which is sent to your email address when you register and download NuPIC.
Oh boy, it come with a Python installer. Another programming language to learn (I hope not). Add it, in my case, to APL, Cobol, Fortran, PL1, Pascal, Basic, C, C++, PHP, Javascript ... I hope I have not forgotten anyone important.
After downloading and running the installation file, I did run into a hitch in the installation wizard. After the Python installation I got the old "not responding" error in the wizard window. Eventually, after closing some other application windows, I saw that a secondary Python window had popped up and needed to have its Continue buttons pressed. Once that was done the "not responding" error in the main install window went away and I completed the install successfully.
That leaves Python on my system at C:/Python25/
and NuPIC on my system at C:/Program Files/Numenta/nupic-1.7.1/
It also means the first example, BitWorm, ran successfully, although I did not learn anything from it yet.
Next up: the BitWorm example in detail