The Internet Is Torturing a Fruit Fly... (opensource brain)

Google and Janelia open-sourced MaleCNS, the complete wiring diagram of a male fruit fly's brain: 166,000 neurons and 125 million synapses. The internet immediately put it in Minecraft, Beat Saber and Doom, gave it $100 to trade Bitcoin, and launched a memecoin with it... 🔗 Relevant Links Google Research blog: https://research.google/blog/a-connectomics-milestone-mapping-the-complete-male-fruit-fly-brain/ Google announcement tweet: https://x.com/NewsFromGoogle/status/2095553014715093022 Minecraft: https://x.com/evnsnclr/status/2095975490708291948 Beat Saber fly: https://x.com/_lyraaaa_/status/2097527368919470162 Doom fly: https://x.com/nftechie_/status/2096409780961059119 ❤️ More about us Radically better observability stack: https://betterstack.com/ Written tutorials: https://betterstack.com/community/ Example projects: https://github.com/BetterStackHQ 📱 Socials Twitter: https://twitter.com/betterstackhq Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterstackhq/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@betterstack LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betterstack 📌 Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:31 - The Internet's Fly Demos 1:36 - Fly Slop 2:11 - My Fly Subscribes 2:34 - What MaleCNS Actually Is 3:00 - How its Made 4:14 - The Catch 5:24 - Real Science