Gideon Kowadlo

Sparse Distributed Representations (SDRs)

by Gideon Kowadlo
December 24, 2014December 22, 2017

TL;DR: An SDR is a Sparse Distributed Representation, described below SDRs are biologically plausible data structures SDRs have powerful properties SDRs have received a lot… Read More »

Thalamocortical architecture

by Gideon Kowadlo
May 27, 2014December 22, 2017

by Gideon Kowadlo and David Rawlinson Introduction One of the keys to understanding the neocortex as a whole, and the emergence of intelligence, is to… Read More »

Constraints on intelligence

by Gideon Kowadlo
May 21, 2014December 22, 2017

by Gideon Kowadlo and David Rawlinson Introduction This article contains some musings on the factors that limit the increase of intelligence as a species. We… Read More »

A notation for intracortical neural connections

by Gideon Kowadlo
May 16, 2014December 22, 2017

by Gideon Kowadlo and David Rawlinson In a previous post (section ‘Regions’), we discussed the distinction between cortical layers and levels. The literature often describes connections between… Read More »