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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def learn(self, x):
 """Encodes an input array, and performs weight updates and updates to the activity statistics according to the respective methods implemented below."""

        y = self.encode(x)
        self.update_statistics([y]) 
        self.update_weights([x],[y])
        return y