# How can HTM predict next input?

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**Created:** [October 8, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/how-can-htm-predict-next-input/4683 "2018-10-08T13:11:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![kourosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@kourosh](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/kourosh)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/how-can-htm-predict-next-input/4683/1 "2018-10-08T13:11:47Z")

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Hello  
I am new in HTM and have just finished HTM school. It was great and thanks Matt for producing them. I need some help about prediction mechanism in HTM, I can not understand it properly and how TM works. Would you please introduce more paper about it?  
Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![rhyolight](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/rhyolight/32/3922_2.png) [@rhyolight](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/rhyolight)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/how-can-htm-predict-next-input/4683/2 "2018-10-08T14:03:46Z")

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Hello! Read this: [Why Neurons Have Thousands Of Synapses, A Theory Of Sequence Memory In Neocortex](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/why-neurons-have-thousands-of-synapses-a-theory-of-sequence-memory-in-neocortex/572)

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**Author:** ![kourosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@kourosh](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/kourosh)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/how-can-htm-predict-next-input/4683/3 "2018-10-08T14:07:24Z")

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Thank you so much for your quick response.

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**Author:** ![kourosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@kourosh](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/kourosh)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/how-can-htm-predict-next-input/4683/4 "2018-10-13T15:18:28Z")

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I 've found following article which explains HTM in simple words:  
[https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2018/05/alternative-deep-learning-hierarchical-temporal-memory-htm-unsupervised-learning/](https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2018/05/alternative-deep-learning-hierarchical-temporal-memory-htm-unsupervised-learning/)  
😊😊😊