0.5.5

• Renamed a misclassed class name from ConnectionsTest to GroupByTest
• not _ is => is not and fixes groupby comment and passes integration tests
• overhaul to groupby, now 10% faster than current implementation
• NUP-2299 Install specific versions of pip, setuptools, and wheel.
• NUP-2299 Added platform-conditional dependency on pycapnp==0.5.8 using PEP-508.
• lazy group_by and changes to GroupByGenerator
• perf improvement to segment comparison in compute activity
• 100 % increase in spped
• small perf changes
• demonstrate that compatability test works with predictedSegmentDec not 0.0
• fixes subtle bug in numSegments that caused integration tests to fail
• fixes bug where minIdx could be passed as a float rather than an int
• skip serialization test if capnp is not installed
• lints and updates comments in group_by.py and group_by_tests.py
• gets same results as c++ temporal memory after group_by changes
• ports group_by tests and they pass
• adds groupByN utility function for use in TM
• all connections tests written and passing, moved some stuff around and added missing function to connections
• started porting new connections tests and minor changes to connections.py
• improves permanence >= testing in computeActivity
• confirmed python implementation is same as cpp version. Needs better perf now
• adds back AnomalyRegion and Anomaly class in anomaly.py and related tests
• fixes bug in growSynapses, almost exactly the same
• Updated core SHA and default SDR classifier implementation
• Updated SDRClassifier factory and region to handle cpp
• changed input name from value to metricValue
• updates variables names in anomaly_likelihood.py and AnomalyLikelihoodRegion
• adds new connections methods
• create new methods for creating/destroying synapses/segments
• continues change of connections datastructures
• move raw anomaly calculation back to nupic.algorithms.anomaly
• Finished swarming/hypersearch separation
• Moved base hypersearch classes to hypersearch
• Moved experimentutils to nupic.swarming
• Updated SDR classifier internals
• calculate raw anomly score in KNNAnomalyClassifier
• removes anomaly.py dependency in network_api_demo.py
• changes how TPRegion computes prevPredictdColumns and updates clamodel
• Install pip from local copy, other simplifications
• Fixup PYTHONPATH to properly include previously-defined PYTHONPATH
• adds pseudocode to core functions
• continues implementation of AnomalyLikelihoodRegion
• Limit tests to unit after ovverriding pytest args on cli
• DEVOPS-85 OS X build infrastructure for Bamboo CI environment
• replaces segmentCMP with lambda and updates docstrings
• uses arrays instead of dicts in computeActivity
• Corrections to examples in tm_high_order.py
• incorporates binary search into the algorithm where applicable
• remove outdated nab unit tests
• use Q function
• Corrections to examples in tm_high_order.py
• change to column generator
• Added tm_high_order.py to show examples of the temporal memory.
• Fixed conversion bug in SDRClassifier serialization
• Fixed patternNZ proto writing.
• Slight fix for pattern history handling in sdr classifier
• Small fix on SDR classifier
• Better fix for #3172, using the initialize() function and checking if _sdrClassifier is set
• Updated learning rate for SDR classifier + slight changes to the error ranges in OPF test
• Updated hotgym test with actual value and implemented first fix for OPF test
• Updated tests and examples with SDR classifier
• Finished updating examples with SDR classifier.
• Updated hotgym and general anomaly examples with SDR classifier.
• Updates pycapnp to 0.5.8
• test_db-fixes avoids printing user password in plaintext
• test_db-fixes updates database and table name
• Corrections made to the spatial pooler tutorial.
• changes maxBoost default value to 1.0
• fixes connection tests and prints config file used in test_db.py
• Moved back overlap accesors test for spatial_pooler from API tests to unit tests.
• Added tutorial script for the spatial pooler. Modified README file accordingly.
• Moved the unit test for SP overlap accesors to API tests.