Sadly, this has the ear-marks of "we've abandoned the project we previously claimed was worth thousands-per-license and so we thought we'd open-source it".
It would have been much nicer is Numenta had done open source when they had money and people working for them.
It's a shame also in the sense that while Jeff Hawkin's overall paradigm is certainly too simplistic and too ready to dismiss other research, I think his call to have broad paradigms[1] that are made explicit is good even if modern neuroscientists are more aware of the problems he mentions.
It would have been much nicer is Numenta had done open source when they had money and people working for them.
It's a shame also in the sense that while Jeff Hawkin's overall paradigm is certainly too simplistic and too ready to dismiss other research, I think his call to have broad paradigms[1] that are made explicit is good even if modern neuroscientists are more aware of the problems he mentions.
[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_hawkins_on_how_brain_science_w...