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  • A simple video showcasing one fruit picture opened in Preview with the fly going for it would have been nice.
    by Bengalilol
  • Ah, Mr. Acevedo, nice to see you.
    by pavel_lishin
  • Interesting work! There's NeuroMechFly (https://github.com/NeLy-EPFL/flygym/) available, you might try using that to simulate the fly body in real time as well.
    by aperrien
  • I have no exposure to connectomes - or really anything quite like this (as opposed to good ol’ fashioned perceptrons) - so forgive my following uninformed question:

    Can someone explain if this software is ethical?

    by DaiPlusPlus
  • > What's modeled vs. measured

    > Honesty section:

    I wouldn’t mind an human written README

    by a1o
  • Related (fictional):

    https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

    MMAcevedo (Mnemonic Map/Acevedo), also known as Miguel, is the earliest executable image of a human brain. It is a snapshot of the living brain of neurology graduate Miguel Acevedo Álvarez (2010–2073), taken by researchers at the Uplift Laboratory at the University of New Mexico on August 1, 2031

    by WithinReason
  • I appreciate the open source approach over the startup's sensational claims. This is more transparent.

    That said, I think it still presents itself as if the fly is being controlled by the connectome, when (if I'm reading the source correctly) it's more accurate to say scripted behaviors have been hooked up to be triggered by the connectome.

    Put another way, you might as well have the "escape" trigger open a YouTube video of a fly flying away. That would probably be less misleading too.

    by causal

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