@s8n numenta was actually on to some stuff before they got gates'd. they had got a cortical based attention model working (but they didn't realize this; they just called it a sensorimotor model) right before they gave up and sold out to bill gates and are now doing some other stupid shit instead of the biological models. what numenta gleamed the surface of is that enforcing sparsity is necessary.

schmidgel showed spike networks exhibit reliable stability on reinforcement training, which the google labs never achieved.

it turns out the spike coding is absolutely mandatory for intelligence to work. googlers et all are still using some cope that "well the weights are kind of the same thing as pulse train coding averaged over ..." :blobcatstop: NO. BAD. do it like nature did it.