Flomb

A mushroom body taken from the MaleCNS connectome - 4,064 Kenyon cells, 97 output neurons, PAM and PPL1 dopamine - learns Minesweeper from two signals only: heat on a mine, sugar on a safe tile. It wins 78.4 percent of 9x9 boards with 12 mines over 2,000 unseen boards, and the write-up notes that a hand-written single-point rule wins 81.8 percent on the same boards. Two findings are stated as negatives: the advantage is sample efficiency over a plain table that ties given unlimited play, and shuffling the real wiring changes nothing.

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