Scrollfly
MaleCNS watches Shorts, predicts watch time, “likes,” and scrolls. Frozen graph + trained readout; does not beat a constant baseline. Credits Stonkfly and Fly / Wirehead.
Read, and deliberately left unrated. The reasoning is below.
Propose a rating →The evidence
No evidence, no level.The authors state the connectome is frozen and only a readout was trained, and report that it does not beat the constant baseline.
https://github.com/sebastian-stapf/scrollfly/blob/d8be6730ffac7b859c77d048288fa4f3789f6010/README.md#L29-L32The public pages contain no simulated neural activity; the trained brain pilot needs a separate compute service that is not exposed.
https://github.com/sebastian-stapf/scrollfly/blob/d8be6730ffac7b859c77d048288fa4f3789f6010/README.md#L21-L23The repo's brain module is a viewer plus an HTTP client to an external /infer service; no integration step is present in the source.
https://github.com/sebastian-stapf/scrollfly/blob/d8be6730ffac7b859c77d048288fa4f3789f6010/site/brain.js#L66-L84
L2 is ruled out by the authors themselves — they state the readout was trained on 500 videos and that 'The full connectome remains frozen', and they report the honest negative result that the readout does not beat the constant baseline on their 50 creator-disjoint clips. But L0 vs L1 cannot be settled from this repo, because the simulator is not in it. The published site is a replay: it loads pre-recorded per-neuron firing-rate bins from release assets and paints them onto MaleCNS SWC skeletons, and the environment page is explicitly 'interactive MaleCNS anatomy without simulated neural activity' driven by a hand-written pixel-classifying reflex that its own header calls 'a visual reflex, not a trained agent'. The only path to a live brain is an HTTP client POSTing to a /infer service on 127.0.0.1:8877 that the README says 'needs a separate compute service and is not exposed'. Releases contain only the pages bundle and the Chrome companion. To settle L0 vs L1 a reader would need the source of that inference service — specifically whether it integrates membrane voltages under a stated neuron model, or maps connectome activity through a static linear map.
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All projects →MaleCNS simulation connected to ViZDoom through modeled visual inputs and a fixed button readout. Includes plasticity experiments and negative validation results; learned survival has not been demonstrated.
Research framework comparing a MaleCNS-constrained sparse recurrent controller with rewired graphs, conventional neural networks, and other controls on simple VizDoom tasks.
Ratings on thelearningfly.com are proposals, not verdicts. Every one of them is arguable in public.