Thoughts about dendrites

Engineering
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I’ve been thinkig about the dendrites thing.

      I cant help but state that dendrites
      kinda look like trees
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    Dendrites would be good
    at computing argmax()

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  each bifurcation only need to record
  which side had the strongest activation



   Inhibitory synapses on dendrites
   would be good for multiplexing/shuffling

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this is unrelated to dendrites but whatever.

        A circuit that would be good at
        conditionally copying data from one
        area to another.
        similar to the write-enable line in chips

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