Spatial Pooler Implementation for MNIST Dataset

Thank you @vpuente for the interesting biological insight! I’ll need to study those papers.

In application terms,

  • would this render log boosting unsuitable?
  • should the boosting mechanism be left out completely?
    • or do boosting only on early stages (~“baby animal brain”), and disable it once SP has somewhat learned?

On this related note, could you please review the PR for “Synaptic competition on a dendrite”

and its post

?