I’m also envious of your education too. I learned that stuff via the Internet mostly. I never quite got the math parts, but conceptually it made sense to me.
I’m still on my “quest to understand everything” and I keep my bullshit detectors on at all times – I’m especially critical of scientific news articles who make grand claims. [IBMs brain on a chip had me annoyed but even they had to apologize for the one representative that equated it to the intelligence of a cat. He *definitely* was exaggerating and got called on it.
But this chip has merit. I’m not sure about the pinched hysteresis pattern as being “the model” for human memory, but it’s a darn good start just the same.