Hebb's 1949 "fire together, wire together" rule reproduces a 0.138 memory capacity and finds the top eigenvector in one line

Part 87 of Forgotten Theories, a series re-testing old scientific claims with modern tools. Find the rest under the #forgotten-theories tag. Donald Hebb's 1949 book "The Organization of Behavior" is one of those texts that almost everyone in neurosc...