I believe the status is that there's general consensus that something like this would be useful, but there's no one who is currently actively working in it.

On Jun 22, 2016 5:53 AM, "Vitaly Kruglikov" <vkruglikov@numenta.com> wrote:
There have been no updates in over a year. Has this effort died, or transitioned to another medium? Thx

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