fly-brain-calculus

Gives the connectome a multiple-choice calculus item and then spends the rest of the repository showing that the wiring is not why it succeeds. The fly reaches 0.795 held-out accuracy against a 0.311 control and 0.25 chance, but the control arms run the wrong way: permuting which neurons excite or inhibit beats the real graph, degree-preserving rewiring beats that, and a plain random graph with the right edge count scores 0.980. Only shuffling synapse counts hurts, which moves the network out of its operating regime. The reading offered is a random nonlinear reservoir.

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