Thank you so much Jim (as well as ravon, brod, and ifoggz) for undertaking this massive development task of rewriting the NN. If you had told me six months ago that we would have a fully functional scraper written in C++ merged to our development branch today I'd have said you were crazy. The amount of hours devoted to this rewrite is astounding. Gridcoin truly does have some of the most dedicated developers in crypto :)
Additionally, this write up is a great summary of the changes being made. This article seems ideal for the wiki that is being rewritten. (@jringo cough cough)
RE: Progress update on the new Gridcoin BOINC stats collection system (the "Scraper" which replaces the old "Neural Network")