FlyType

i taught a simulated fruit fly brain to type.

A real fruit fly connectome takes visual input from Monkeytype. Simulated neural activity comes out as keystrokes.

how a fly gets a keyboard

Playwright captures letters, image processing maps them into retinotopic neurons, and a classifier decodes the simulated spike activity into characters.

The connectivity comes from a male Drosophila melanogaster, rather than a conventional artificial neural network. Experiments with dopamine-modulated plasticity explore a biological learning component.

python · numpy · neural simulation · image processing · logistic classification · playwright