Montana Harkin

BeaverBarCamp. Was it worth going to? I say yes.

There were definitely some smart/cool projects happening. The next BarCamp I’ll try and attend more events. Our BeaverSource presentation went well, Eric Betts did a great job describing it. Hopson++ for getting the SSO module done so quickly.

Things that would be nice:

• Planned sessions please. People have lives. Lives don’t bend around “There might be a session between 9 and 5 that sounds cool.”
• Having people silence their phones during talks.  Rude++
• Theme for the meet, or possible topic areas.

Things that were nice:

• The creative atmosphere.
• The people.
• The food.

Topics that I should at least read up on:

• Object Databases
• Microsoft LinQ

Barry, Jose, Wil, and Jeremy were present, all looking like they have been to more events like this than me.

I have found an interest in HTMs or “Hierarchical Temporal Memorys”. Jeff Hawkins, the creator of Palm Inc. and Handspring has started a community around this technology. The aim is to allow computers to learn the same way that the brain does, through patterns in hierarchy and time.

Currently, I’m reading Hierarchical Temporal Memory: Concepts, Theory and Terminology

Robert, from work, thought of a good use for this technology.

Monitoring live web access logs for our servers at work to see if a site has been hacked or we are receiving a DOS attack.

This is a fairly encompassing idea, but I think that HTMs will be able to accomplish it easily.