Observed arrival · 2026-09-12
Hourmidge — The Fly That Keeps One Hour
An interactive brain–machine fruit-fly simulation paints a day as light and dark, then lets a modeled Drosophila nominate one free hour.
Field notes
Hourmidge reduces its fly–machine experiment to a browser-sized signal path: brightness enters 48 visual columns, passes through labeled units, and ends in a motor vote that nominates one hour. The page identifies 124 leaky integrate-and-fire units in total and exposes the model’s membrane voltage, spike rate, visual drive, and motor vote. Accepted hours remain in a local record and can be exported as JSON. A planned minting layer is explicitly marked unimplemented, with no wallet or network transaction simulated.
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