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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1511.00083/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1511.00083/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex — mentioned by Mageek</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31002478</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1511.00083:31002478</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:33:13 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;An HTM layer is one feedforward layer in a Heirarchical Temporal Memory network. See for example https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00083 which trains one-layer HTM models. See for example https://timallanwheeler.com/blog/2022/01/09/hierarchical-tem... for a more approachable blog post about the same topic&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1511.00083/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>q-bio.NC</category></item><item><title>Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex — mentioned by p1esk</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20078564</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1511.00083:20078564</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2019 21:59:46 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Look into capsules, also [1-3] can give you an idea of what can be explored. Evolving NNs [4] would probably benefit the most from NN primitives research. IMO, the best source of ideas for novel primitives is neocortex [5, 6]. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03955 [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11168 [3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02961 [4] https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-018-0006-z [5] https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00161 [6] https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00083&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1511.00083/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>q-bio.NC</category></item><item><title>Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex — mentioned by otoburb</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10584764</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1511.00083:10584764</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2015 23:22:53 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Direct link to the arXiv paper for that want to dive in right away: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00083&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1511.00083/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>q-bio.NC</category></item><item><title>Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512096</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:1511.00083:10512096</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2015 07:28:53 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses: a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;68 points; 18 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1511.00083/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>q-bio.NC</category></item></channel></rss>
