Developer turns fruit fly's 7,443 simulated smell neurons into a trading strategy, up $7K
kleffew94 · x · 2026-09-26
A developer used Massive market data to encode an asset's technical setup as a smell fed into a real fruit fly's olfactory circuit (7,443 simulated smell neurons), with the fly's favorite smells driving buys and take-profits. The fly-based strategy is up about $7,000.
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