I'm pretty sure that in the README that
sax_none = sax_via_window(dat, win_size=6, paa_size=3, alphabet_size=3, nr_strategy=None, znorm_threshold=0.01)
sax1
should be
sax_none = sax_via_window(dat, win_size=6, paa_size=3, alphabet_size=3, nr_strategy=None, z_threshold=0.01)
sax_none