@s8n its the lack of sparsity.

cortical models have an inhibition mechanism that attempts to mirror how human brains do it. where columns basically fight over potential/depotentials when creating the paths to fire

they did another paper on doing sparsity on traditional ML models and they are cheaper and better to run that way. a different group made Top-Kast that takes the idea and makes it easier to slap in to pytorch.

basically densenets are crap and wrong