Trained a fruit fly brain to sort objects, and it invented bubble sort
prajdabre · x · 2026-09-12
Someone trained a fruit fly brain (biological neural network model) to sort objects, and the system spontaneously converged on the classic bubble sort algorithm. A classic counterintuitive case of a biological/neural system rediscovering a known human algorithm.
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