Fly Brain Arena: a real fruit-fly connectome judges if your meme beats a banana
p_e_cooper · x · 2026-09-15
A joke tool built on the real FlyWire fruit-fly connectome: upload a meme, pit it against a banana, and a simulated fly brain picks the image with higher mean downstream neural activity (brightness-matched, 32 model steps, fully deterministic). The creator is upfront that it's a gag — no smell, no banana recognition, no humor comprehension; higher activation isn't liking, and the banana isn't rigged to win (though it remains undefeated against fruit).
Related event: Developer Builds Meme Classifier Powered by Fly Brain Connectome(2 posts)→
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