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Adam Marblestone reposted Tim Hwang @timhwang · 11h I think we can all agree that weekends are for simulating an entire drosophila connectome on your home compute and hooking the brain up to drive a virtual rover around looking for rewards [embedded video, paused at 0:00] Ghost in the Fly · rover · canonical · identified-DN geometry positive contr... Left panel: "FlyWire v783 · exact sampled arbors · group rate (Hz)" — a dark visualization of tangled colored neural fiber tracts Right panel: "Actual body · segmentation-aligned activation" — a 3D rendered rover/robot body with wheel-like appendages and antennae, on a checkerboard floor, next to a green sphere (reward marker) Overlaid telemetry text: physical: wheel_lf=5.95e-08, wheel_rh=5.95e-08, wheel_lm=5.95e-08, forward_velocity_mm_s=... applied: forward_velocity_mm_s=1.19e-08, yaw_rate_rad_s=-6.26e-09, antenna_left=0, antenn... decoded for next: forward_velocity_mm_s=9.25e-09, yaw_rate_rad_s=-4.88e-09, antenna_left=0... pose: position[0]=7.74, position[2]=0.631, heading_rad=-0.58, position[1]=0.501
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Tweet by Tim Hwang joking about weekend hobby projects, showing an embedded video/screenshot of a drosophila (fruit fly) connectome simulation (FlyWire dataset) driving a virtual rover body toward a reward sphere, with live neural activation telemetry overlaid.