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flydoom

Alternate Doom fly on Princeton’s FAFB-v783 (FlyWire) dataset rather than MaleCNS.

MaleCNSFlyWire
Fidelity · reviewed
L1 Dynamics

Neurons are simulated — leaky integrate-and-fire or better — with documented, tuned parameters.

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The evidence

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Rating note

LIF simulation of all 139,255 FAFB-v783 neurons in the model form of Shiu et al. (tau_mem, tau_syn, threshold, reset, refractory, conduction delay), stepped at 0.5 ms. Not L2: nothing writes a synaptic weight during a run. The one plasticity mechanism in the codebase is short-term depression, and it is (a) disabled by default, with the config stating 'The reported model is the frozen one', and (b) a per-neuron presynaptic release resource rather than a per-synapse weight, so even when enabled it is vesicle depletion, not learning. The project's own neuron registry says the punishment-dopamine pathway 'injects into a brain with no plasticity to receive it'. This is a third, independent flydoom rated on its own source; it also reports its own negative result on motion vision in detail, which is good science and is not held against it.

Record

CategoryGames & control
DatasetsMaleCNS, FlyWire
LevelL1 — reviewed
Listed intownie/awesome-fruit-fly
First indexed2026-09-15

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