# How can we help Numenta research?

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TBT (HTM with lateral connections) has not gotten much attention on the forum.  
TBT offers a path towards distributed large-scale representation achieved with local computation

I proposed an implementation a while ago but other than that, not much has been done on the forum.

> [@HTM Mini-Columns into Hexagonal Grids!](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/htm-mini-columns-into-hexagonal-grids/3567):
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> Or at least some wild conjectures to provoke thought! This post assumes that you are familiar with basic HTM theory and are conversant with the concepts of SDRs and HTM minicolumns. May I be so bold: First - let’s be clear what I am and am not talking about. This is about cells that work by forming regular hexagonal grid structures and are not necessarily the same thing as the “grid cells” that are coding some spatial aspect of the surrounding environment. These grid-fo…

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