FLYBOARD
CPU arcade interface for injecting current into named MaleCNS populations while viewing the modeled voltage and spike field.
Neurons are simulated — leaky integrate-and-fire or better — with documented, tuned parameters.
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No evidence, no level.The per-tick update is a stated leaky-integrator equation with threshold and reset over the real MaleCNS matrix.
https://github.com/NullLabTests/flybrain/blob/9b922ae3e4bee3122e6c8fb996e054719fe71c05/flyboard/sim.py#L1-L12The CSR weight data is copied from the connectome graph once at construction and is never written again.
https://github.com/NullLabTests/flybrain/blob/9b922ae3e4bee3122e6c8fb996e054719fe71c05/flyboard/sim.py#L50-L57The authors state the buttons are current injectors, and that the dopaminergic 'reward' button is a bounded fake burst.
https://github.com/NullLabTests/flybrain/blob/9b922ae3e4bee3122e6c8fb996e054719fe71c05/README.md#L70-L86
The full 166,700-neuron MaleCNS matrix is stepped by a documented leaky integrator - v decays by exp(-dt/0.1), synaptic input is W times the spike vector plus background, noise and button current, and a neuron spikes and resets at v >= 1 - so voltages are genuinely simulated and the glow is that field. L1. Not L2: the CSR weight array is taken from the graph once in the constructor and never assigned to again anywhere in the package; a repo-wide grep for plasticity, STDP, Hebbian or learning-rate terms returns nothing. The ORGASM button is the obvious trap and the project itself defuses it - it injects current into the real dopaminergic population for a hold window and the README labels it a FAKE REWARD BURST with a 1%-of-population cap. Injecting current into dopamine cells is stimulation, not a learning rule.
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