# \#learning

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## [Difference between two boost factor updates](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/difference-between-two-boost-factor-updates/7668)

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**Author:** [@Qubitza](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/Qubitza)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [June 18, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/difference-between-two-boost-factor-updates/7668 "2020-06-18T13:44:35Z")

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Hi thogether, I’m relatively new to HTM and currently studying the SPs learning phase, especially the boost factor update. I watched Matts excellent HTM School, so I think I have a solid knowledge of the process as a w…

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## [Facilitation / augmentation](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/facilitation-augmentation/6708)

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**Author:** [@rhyolight](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/rhyolight)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 16, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/facilitation-augmentation/6708 "2019-10-16T14:30:10Z")

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Tomorrow Oct 16 at 10:15AM Pacific. From @FFiebig: “Facilitation/augmentation, the pre-synaptic calcium dynamics that are behind it, and hope to touch on how some cortical models have leveraged it as a m…

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## [Enable and disable learning for Spatial Pooling and Temporal Pooling](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/enable-and-disable-learning-for-spatial-pooling-and-temporal-pooling/4737)

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**Author:** [@benbastaki](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/benbastaki)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [October 16, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/enable-and-disable-learning-for-spatial-pooling-and-temporal-pooling/4737 "2018-10-16T23:14:36Z")

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Hi, Please can you advise me on following; should we disable learning for SP and TM when we feed the testing datasets to the HTM? training dataset Sp.compute(sdr, learn = TRUE, activeArray) tm.compute(self.activeC…

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## [Sequence Grouping in Motor Learning](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/sequence-grouping-in-motor-learning/4304)

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**Author:** [@Bitking](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/Bitking)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2018, 5:28am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/sequence-grouping-in-motor-learning/4304 "2018-08-05T05:28:50Z")

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In the “baby bird learning to sing” task it is natural to wonder how the learned task is organized as it is learned and recalled. It turns out that other people have been thinking about this sort of thing. I have trying…
