Observed arrival · 2026-09-11
FLYBRAIN: A Fruit Fly With a Cursor
Credibility concern recorded. The source reference remains available for verification and correction.
An interactive browser simulation runs a traced male fruit-fly nervous system and turns its visual and motor activity into cursor movement.
Field notes
The page describes a browser-facing connectome rather than a conventional neural-network demo: a screenshot enters through 892 retinotopic hex columns, while named descending neurons determine cursor direction, reversal, stopping, and clicking. Its stated model uses leaky integrate-and-fire cells with a 20 ms time constant and reports 10,228,000 signed connections. The project also folds in a crypto layer, treating token metadata as odour and describing a signed transaction produced by the simulated agent.
Observed signals
Read the marks
Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
One card from the complete issue