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DesktopFly

A macOS desktop fly combining FlyWire spiking circuits with a MaleCNS brain-to-leg extract, modeled senses, and articulated behavior. Includes an Electron port.

MaleCNSFlyWire
Fidelity · reviewed
L1 Dynamics

Neurons are simulated — leaky integrate-and-fire or better — with documented, tuned parameters.

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Rating note

A 668-neuron FlyWire v783 circuit (LC4/LPLC2 looming detectors, the Giant Fiber pair, DNa01/DNa02 steering, DNp09, DNg11, MDN and their strongest partners) with 18,968 real signed connection rows runs as a 1 kHz leaky integrate-and-fire simulation - 20 ms membrane tau via a 0.9512 per-ms decay, unit threshold, 2 ms refractory, delayed inhibition queue - plus a 1,045-neuron MaleCNS brain-to-leg extract driving articulated joints. Documented neuron dynamics on real connectivity is L1. Not L2: the weight array is filled once while building the CSR from the connectome file and is only read inside the propagation loop; a repository-wide grep for plasticity, STDP, dopamine or any learning rate returns nothing in the Swift or JS sources. EVALUATION.md states the locomotor upgrade does not add learning.

Record

CategoryDesktop flies
DatasetsMaleCNS, FlyWire
LevelL1 — reviewed
Listed incobanov/awesome-fly · townie/awesome-fruit-fly
First indexed2026-09-15

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