Sam, this is great stuff. I’m also starting to think about SP visualizations. I like the direction you are taking. I hope you don’t mind if I end up taking some design ideas for my work?
Also, since you are using the terms “potential pool” and “receptive field”…
This topic recently came up in a meeting, and I think @subutai and I agree that there is a subtle different in these terms.
- potential pool: Possible connections from a mini-column in the SP to an input space. Could be represented as a list of integer indices of the input space.
- receptive field: Within the potential pool, the synapses with permanence values above a connection threshold. Activity within the receptive field causes the mini-column to become active.