Comment Comment by fintler I had fun reading this. Thanks for sharing.With dendritic compartments, this seems like a waste of a perfectly good neuron that we could productively use elsewhere. ;)Note that a SINGLE neuron can compute nonlinear functions like XOR.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/This article builds on the first and creates a half adder out of neurons:https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2026-timing-is-the-bit/ parent fintler 5 months ago
With dendritic compartments, this seems like a waste of a perfectly good neuron that we could productively use elsewhere. ;)
Note that a SINGLE neuron can compute nonlinear functions like XOR.
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/
This article builds on the first and creates a half adder out of neurons:
https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2026-timing-is-the-bit/