19 points | by malshe 4 days ago
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With synaptic compartments, this seems like a waste of a perfectly good neuron that we could productively use elsewhere. ;)
Shameless plug: If anyone is interested, I did a post a while back on how neurons can act as logic gates:
https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2025-neural-logic-gates/
Note that a SINGLE neuron can compute nonlinear functions like XOR.
With synaptic compartments, this seems like a waste of a perfectly good neuron that we could productively use elsewhere. ;)
Shameless plug: If anyone is interested, I did a post a while back on how neurons can act as logic gates:
https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2025-neural-logic-gates/
Note that a SINGLE neuron can compute nonlinear functions like XOR.