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“Delicious is the Rome, Jerusalem, and Paris of my existence as an academic these days. It’s where I make my friends, how I get the news, and where I go to trade. All this from a little server that does nothing but share bookmarks in public.
Why? Two r
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“A service which consumes various formats (RDF, atom, rss, microformats with GRDDL profiles) and outputs triples in other various formats (html, json, ntriples, rdf, rss or turtle)”
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“landscape history, hard-core theology, sex, military strategy, and the church.”
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“Create your own tag cloud from any text to visualize word frequency.”
Archive for March, 2007
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“Michael talks about why slocial tagging matters to libraries. He mentions some initiatives, including PennTags , Stanford IC, and the Steve Museum. Harvard has the CRT (Collaborative Research Tool) and EdTags initiatives. He also mentions iCommons (explo
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“A way to quickly write things down and save them on the net. You may experience moments of pure relief after Jotting. Extended use may result in organized schedules, met deadlines, better connections, and more time in your day.”
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“”This book is a great guide to social software in libraries. It’s part social software history and part implementation guide. This book is bound to give you great ideas about creating digital spaces!”
- David Lee King, Digital Branch & Services Manage
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March 28, 2007-
“The Sailing Vessel (S/V) Greenheart is being designed as a one-container sailing auxiliary trading vessel – the first of its kind. Using a standard 40 foot container (2 TEU) – sized cargo hold amidships as her core design feature, the S/V Greenheart revi
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“And to encourage people to return bikes quickly, rental rates rise the longer the bikes are out. In Paris, for instance, renting a bike will be free for the first 30 minutes, $1.30 for the next 30 minutes, $2.60 for the third half-hour, and $5.20 for the
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Important evidence at 21:40 of perhaps why Dawkins leaves scientific method behind when he argues against religion. See http://del.icio.us/mshook/scottatran for an antidote.
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“It was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly besid
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“He is now married to his third wife, Lalla Ward, the actress who played Romana, one of Dr Who’s plucky assistants, having been divorced from Stamp, and later from Eve Barham, mother of Dawkins’s only child.”
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“I object to their manner of combating such beliefs, which is often scientifically baseless, psychologically uninformed, politically naïve, and counterproductive for goals we share. And I agree with Dan Dennett that silence in the face of dangerous lunac
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“Now Dawkins … he’s pretty vehement about Roman Catholicism, largely because his daughter, when he split up from his wife was educated against his will in a Catholic nunnery and it must have been pretty painful for him to see this process happening. So
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“Now Raleigh Germany has done a deal with Google to offer bikes of all shapes and sizes to Google staff across Europe. All the bikes will be branded with the Google logo.”
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“”A lot of our early members were part of Project MAC, the first generation of computer programmers and the forerunner to the MIT Computer Science Lab,” says Lewbel. “And I think what drew the geeks and the hippies was that they were both willing to be no
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“The Stochastic Pi Machine (SPiM) is a simulator for the stochastic pi-calculus that can be used to simulate models of biological systems. The machine has been formally specified, and the specification has been proved correct with respect to the calculus.
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“With ZenZui, your phone screen is a portal into your own customized Zoomspace, an information landscape of personalized, cached content in the form of Tiles that directly reflect your lifestyle. Using a single thumb, you fly in and out of your Zoomspace
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March 27, 2007-
“However, Cerf added, Google is “quite eager” to be part of the growing mobile sector, and “is very interested in the platforms other people are building.”"
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“On July 15, the day after Bastille Day, Parisians will wake up to discover thousands of low-cost rental bikes at hundreds of high-tech bicycle stations scattered throughout the city, an ambitious program to cut traffic, reduce pollution, improve parking
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“The plural of the title is purposeful: Dyson advances the hypothesis that life had a double origin. “Either life began only once, with the functions of replication and metabolism already present in rudimentary form and linked together from the beginning,
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Disability Evaluation Under Social Security
(Blue Book- June 2006)Listing of Impairments – Adult Listings (Part A)
The following sections are applicable to individuals age 18 and over and to children under age 18 where criteria are appropriate.
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E. Soft tissue tumors of the head and neck not addressed in A-D, with multimodal antineoplastic therapy. Consider under a disability until at least 18 months from the date of diagnosis. Thereafter, evaluate any residual impairment(s) under the criteria fo
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“Sustained work” means completing successive tasks in a timely manner throughout
the workday without significant loss of productivity. “Regular and continuing” work
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Warren was telling me about this place today.
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“Dr. Gregory House is a maverick medical genius who heads a team of young diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. Most episodes start with a cold open somewhere outside the hospital, showing the events leading
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“The basic idea is that an object exists at some base URL, which is a container. (Getting the object there is outside of the scope of OHM, but WSGI-based dispatchers and frameworks can help you do this.) Each attribute is a resource under this container.
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March 26, 2007-
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GSV ?2005 Michal Migurski, Stamen DesignThis is a draggable, zoomable Polaroid photo. Please use an up-to-date version of Mozilla, Internet Explorer, Opera or Safari to view. Read more here.
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“All life has a kind of seamlessness. All creatures have to be aware of their environment, and there has been an evolution of the capacities needed for detecting increasingly complex stimuli. I have no problem calling this “meaning,” since all creatures p
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“Recognizing that it was the intermediates and not the fully folded protein that were in trouble opened the way to understanding some aspect of a range of diseases.”
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“I’m going to break this article down into 5 main sections: Zope and web.py, roll your own framework, Django, Pylons, and TurboGears. In each individual section (I don’t do this with the first), I will break down each framework by:”
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“Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is one of the numerous growth factors, or proteins that regulate cell growth and division. In particular, it plays a significant role in angiogenesis, the growth of blood vessels fro -
“a service that enables you to compile and order a book with contents you pick from over a million Wikipedia articles. You will then receive a unique, bound book with high quality, selected articles!
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“An idea space for people who like to make books with kids.”
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“A key influence on Marshall McLuhan, with whom Ong enjoys the status of honorary guru among technophiles, this challenging study remains the most detailed account of Ramus’s method ever published. Out of print for more than a decade, this book—with a n
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“The authors of the semantic web are going to be people, not machines. And people will only want to play the game if it’s easy, natural, and fun.
Early indications are that Freebase is going to be a whole lot of fun. In his walkthrough Tim O’Reilly
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“Mjt is particularly useful with services that return JSON values and accept a callback= parameter, such as the Freebase service and the Yahoo JSON API. With these services you can use mjt to build “mash-ups” that incorporate data from services on multipl
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“Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) provides an easy way to declaratively create an image using XML, and XForms provides an easy way to edit XML. In this article you will put the two together to create an XForms-based XVG editor for creating SVG images such a
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“Every query that hits our site gets sent via tcpip to a Lisp process running on an dual 800mhz x86 Linux box with 2g of ram ($3000, vs about $1,000,000 for a similarly capable mainframe), and the process devotes between 5 and 15 seconds of CPU time to it
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“A guide to the study of America’s industrial past through examination of early engines, furnaces, locomotives, windmills, foundries, canals, bridges, and other industrial antiquities.”
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“Acknowledgements. Foreword Adam Blatner. Foreword José Fonesca. Introduction. PART 1. The history and identity of Brazilian Psychodrama. 1. The arrival of psychodrama to Brazil: It’s early development in the sixties. Ronaldo Pamplona Da Costa. 2. The de
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“This experiment examines PV92, a human-specific Alu insertion on chromosome 16. The PV92 genetic system has only two alleles indicating the presence (+) or absence (-) of the Alu transposable element on each of the paired chromosomes. This results in thr
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“they use polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify a 300-nucleotide Alu insertion in an intron of the H-cadherin gene. Gel electrophoresis separates the 2 alleles, and each student determines their own genotype. The experiment provides an introduction t
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“In conclusion I will briefly introduce an orientation I call hermeneutic constructivism and illustrate how it can lead to an alternative path of design.”
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“a set of assumptions about the nature of human learning that guide constructivist learning theories and teaching methods of education. Constructivism values developmentally appropriate teacher-supported learning that is initiated and directed by the stud
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“Observations of biological systems tell us a great deal about
how to make robust and evolvable systems. Techniques origi-
nally developed in support of symbolic Artificial Intelligence can
be viewed as ways of enhancing robustness
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March 24, 2007links for 2007-03-23
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“Spend some time researching or writing a decent 3rd Normalised Form database abstraction layer, in a proper object-orientated modern programming language, and stay the hell away from hand-coded hard-coding of database access functions. Oh – and don’t be
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an ontology wiki
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“I just spotted this sweet fleet of pedal-powered Ecotaxis on my way through the Trastevere neighborhood of Rome. Motorized transport is something Rome could definitely use less of, and it looks like the Ecotaxi enterprise is boldly exploring alternatives
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“Metaweb, by contrast, has just a single record for the Canon EOS 20D with redundancy and discrepancies resolved. Metaweb contains only ‘reconciled’ data, and maps a single object to a single thing in the world.
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“Bought 3 books to prepare for ssdi application, this book, 2.Nolo’s guide to ssd and 3. how to get ssd. Using the info in the books (and each gave insight to a diff part of the ssdi process-this book detail was the how to fill out the paperwork completel
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“”Bought 3 books to prepare for ssdi application, this book, 2.Nolo’s guide to ssd and 3. how to get ssd. Using the info in the books (and each gave insight to a diff part of the ssdi process-this book detail was the how to fill out the paperwork complete
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“Connecticut, Massachusetts. Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, beginning in August 2006. Summer 2006 (8 pages) “
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“Shows how to apply the principles of Social Security Ruling 99-2p to writing persuasive medical reports that satisfy Social Security disability standards. Winter 2004-2005. (24 pages)”
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March 22, 2007-
“Google Base is a collection of many independent data sets all stored on a common platform. Metaweb is a single unified database carefully constructed from many diverse data sets.
Imagine you were seeking information on a specific digital camera such a
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“The really great thing about digital publishing tools and mobile devices connected to the Internets is that we have almost reached to the point where we can toggle seamlessly … between physical and digital artifacts without needing to say really assini
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“First, StreamBase actually has two “languages” — one is based on SQL, and one is based on graphical boxes-and-arrows. They’re equally expressive, but the differences extend to more than just surface syntax. Stream processing is a relatively new paradigm
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“When were the scrolls published?
Most of the early discoveries were published within a few years of discovery. The thousands of fragments found in Cave 4 (the richest site of all) required longer to reconstruct and translate. The tiny C
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“Looooongshot evidence of Jesus’s genealogy (Ralph-arcane)”
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This sounds like the exhibit I saw in Mobile a couple of years ago.
“The first room of the walking exhibit focuses on the discovery of the scrolls. The best feature beyond the wall posters is a nice, life-sized model of a cave (think nook and cranny) wit -
“It was a soldier who made the most lasting impression. Earl Wardell, who worked for the Joint Chiefs, said things I would never have thought a soldier could say to a crowd like us. Conventional command-and-control wasn’t working. The enemy had mastered
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“I recently heard an interview with E.O. Wilson in which he was asked to react to the critiques of religion that Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins have famously been making. The problem isn’t religion, Wilson said, it’s tribalism. The two often coincide
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“The kinds of standard affordances that we take for granted on the textual web — select, copy, reorganize, link, paste — are missing in action on the audio-visual web. The lack of such affordances in our current crop of (mostly) proprietary media play
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See “In the beginning was the command line”
“One of my favorite business model suggestions for entrepreneurs is, find an old UNIX command that hasn’t yet been implemented on the web, and fix that. talk and finger became ICQ, LISTSERV became Yahoo! Groups -
I heard him on Cambridge Forum just now talking about how the last few elections have been stolen.
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Susan has found this to be a wonder resource for ideas for including teens in the library community.
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“This web site is designed to provide information pertaining to all areas of the survivors life. The Late Effects Assessment allows you to build an assessment of late-effects specific to your diagnosis and treatment.
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“For years people undergoing cancer treatment have described their minds as being in a fog — unable to concentrate and remember details about their everyday lives. Doctors and researchers knew something was wrong, but they couldn’t pinpoint what it was.
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I heard Nasr this afternoon in the 1 o’clock slot.
“About 15 percent of Muslims worldwide are Shia. In Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Bahrain, Shia constitute a majority or plurality of the populace, and areas of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia (in the latter, the o -
“Copyright began as a tool of censorship used by the Crown, became a type of trade regulation, and then was established as a private property right, Mary says. The tropes we use to talk about it derive from that history. These tropes have been deconstruct
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“It is a case of arranging concrete materials – books and other kindred materials – in such a way that one kind of arrangement presents itself to one person and another kind to another person. To secure this by pressing a button is obviously possible only
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“I truly don’t understand why I enjoy this so much. It is not a devilish delight in finding that we really don’t understand a prominent member of the canon. I love Hamlet all the more for having its ambiguity exposed. Truly. Obviously, the richness of
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But just who are these suicide bombers and what’s motivating them to act? Scott Atran is a research scientist at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris and at the University of Michigan. His article, “Who wants to be a martyr?” appeare
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“Did you know that well over half of the requests seen by del.icio.us are for RSS feeds? That means that people cruising around our site in browsers are actually in the minority, when it comes down to raw traffic. Instead, our heaviest hitters include pe
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“Joshua Porter writes “9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers: A few lessons learned in 7 years of blogging” — and I disagree with every one of his lessons, based on the experience that comes with 20+ years of writing and editing, and running three blogs and tw
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“A researcher at Canada’s National Research Council has a provocative post on his personal blog predicting that the Semantic Web will fail. The researcher notes the rising problems with Web 2.0 — MySpace blocking outside widgets, Yahoo ending Flickr ide
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“created by Josh Schwartz, portrays the fictional lives of a group of teenagers and their families residing in Orange County, California.”
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“Thanks was a short-running television sitcom … main characters … were an outstanding puritan family called the “Winthrops” in colonial New England. It debuted on the CBS network in August 1999. It ran for six episodes.”
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“I was diagnosed with cancer in May of 2006. I had surgery to biopsy the tumor to find out what kind of cancer it was (or the unlikely possibility that it was not malignant) and to reduce its bulk. The doctor called it “squamous cell carcenoma of the ba
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“Now in 2006, we are looking forward to another major advance in capabilities. This advance utilizes the new Cell processor in Sony’s PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) to achieve performance previously only possible on supercomputers. With this new technology (as well
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A month or two ago, Stefan Maglenski released a nifty hack that scanned BBC news pages for proper nouns and turned them into hyperlinks if the phrase in question has a Wikipedia entry. Clever!
The Wikipedizer is a simple RESTful web service based on St
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“9:00AM Open Protopage. Check Voo2do list. Projects are showing some next actions involving calls, and some involving editing a nearly-finished proposal. Handle the proposal first, writing it up in Zoho Writer or Writeboard, and share it using BaseCamp wi
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“I created this page to help me understand what is going on in the video The Inner Life of the Cell:
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjexZ88wIno&mode=related&search=
I copied the terms which showed up on the screen and looked them up, mostly in
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an audio clip of Lord’s Prayer in Old English, kindly supplied by Professor Richard Bailey.
We cannot be sure what language Paulinus would have spoken to his audience in. He came from Rome, but had spent many years in Kent, where Old English was spoken
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Yikes! $150!
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“From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Blackwell Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of books. The volumersquo;s expert contr -
“Whereas the Colonie of Connecticutt and Uncass Sachim of Mohoage are and have been neighbours and to another for the Space of about fortie five years, and whereas there hath been good Friendship between us Maintained, in the dayes of the first govern’e
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” The following model collections are available for educators to borrow for a 2 week period, beginning with the day the model is received. Check this list frequently, as new model collections are always being added:
* 15 Tacks and a 4 Foot Toober K
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“Hidden among the ATV’s at the Sportsmans Show was an actual human powered device. Mechanical Engineer Stephen Coates thought that traditional bikes have limitations when it came to balance, comfort, storage and joint-friendly leg action. He has developed
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“This demonstration software, called Pictures, will give a sense of what Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) can do. Both engineers and non-engineers are encouraged to explore HTM with it. It is easy to set up and doesn’t require the Numenta Platform for I
