FlyBrain · Flappy

Runs the FlyWire FAFB v783 connectome, 144,837 neurons and 15,023,799 synapses, as a frozen network with zero learnable parameters, letting its looming-escape pathway, LC4 and LPLC2 into the DNp01 giant fibers, fly a Flappy Bird clone. The ablation carries the claim: cutting that pathway or shuffling it degree-preserving gives no wing flaps at all rather than a lower score, against 100.8 points for the real wiring over 40 games. A long table logs what failed: one-ply lookahead, ceiling boosts, every gating variant. The page lags the bench only because it cannot feed the brain fast enough.

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