William Chapman Neuromorphic Computing
Notes

Working notes, with figures you can touch

Short pieces on mechanisms I keep re-deriving. Every one carries a live figure and a statement of what the toy model leaves out.

2025-08-14 9 min read Mechanism note

Divisive inhibition is a gain knob, not a threshold

Subtractive inhibition moves a curve. Divisive inhibition rescales it. On a sensor pixel array that difference is the difference between clipping and seeing.