My toy spiking network completely flunked NARMA-10, but a simple neuroscience trick unlocked a 15x compute bargain. [D]

(Disclaimer: This post was drafted with the help of AI to keep it concise, but the research and work are entirely mine.) I’ve been building a spiking neural network (SNN) engine from scratch on my laptop as a solo project. To see if it was actually tracking anything useful outside of my own custom p