Complete wiring map of an adult fruit fly brain

[cynar@lemmy.world]

The connectome is a map of individual neurones. The projectome is a map of how larger regions interconnect. Particularly the relative strength of the links.

It's the difference between a detailed road map vs the relative road capacity between countries. It cuts out a lot of fine detail to see larger patterns. Both are useful, but in different ways.

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

can this map be... simulated?

perhaps put into a computer program with simulated inputs from a virtual environment?

[thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world]

There’s alot of “calculations” done internally in a neuron that I don’t we can map yet

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

interesting. what kibd of "calculations"? what do we know about it?

[baggie@lemmy.zip]

Fucking DLLs

[insight@lemmy.world]

I recall seeing the brain of like an amoeba or something very small with only like 100 neurons or something being simulated.

[mubelotix@jlai.lu]

Came here to say the same thing. It worked very well

[mubelotix@jlai.lu]

This hypes me so much more than GPT-based tools

[meyotch@slrpnk.net]

You certainly didn’t see an amoeba brain. They are single cells. I wonder if you heard about the efforts to do the same thing with a nematode?

[communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz]

Openworm

[zenlix@lemm.ee]

That is super cool. Can we might simulate it in a virtual environment? If so, would that be the first matrix like virtual world?

[thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627321005018

[rooty@lemmy.world]

Great, now I'm imagining a group of flies in leather trenchoats.

[01189998819991197253@infosec.pub]

Mr. Fruiterson, how can you buzz, if you don't have a labium.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Shared objects on Linux.

[zacryon@feddit.org]

As neural networks in AI are inspired by nature, new techniques will surely follow the insights gained by such brain mapping research.

[ubergeek@lemmy.today]

Neural networks in AI barely relate to any biological neural network.

Neural networks in AI are essentially a "scored" pachinko machine, with each peg having different numbers, which cause a "score" to go up for the "right" answer.

Basically, just a really fast, and expensive sieve filter.

[toynbee@lemmy.world]

I've been using Linux for longer than I've been an adult, I've worked in the field for around fifteen years, and TIL what .so means. Thanks!

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

We're probably pretty similar. I haven't been a Linux user as long as I've been an adult (close), but if you include BSDs, then I have, since I dabbled w/ FreeBSD as a kid.

I'm a SW engineer and I like compiled languages, so linking in C libraries comes w/ the territory. If it wasn't for that, I would probably just call them DLLs (dynamic-link library, FWIW), since they do the same thing at the end of the day.

[toynbee@lemmy.world]

I was a sysadmin, now I'm nominally devops. I haven't done real development for probably 21 years, so I didn't interact with SO's or DLL's much. (I actually did know what DLL means, but I have no clue why. Thanks though!)

I didn't use pure BSD until I was eighteen - I think I used Macs a time or two before then. In fact, I'm pretty sure the first time I used BSD was installing it on an iMac I bought off of Craigslist and I did so to experiment with its firewall functionality. What did you do with it as a kid?