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making-fly-play-chess
A frozen fly-connectome reservoir gives chess positions a strange second opinion.
README reviewedSource checked Sep 10, 2026
What’s going on here?
A reinforcement-learning chess agent sends an encoded board through an 8,192-neuron fixed reservoir derived from the Drosophila brain model and trains only the score readout.
THE IMPORTANT BIT
Where the wiring ends,
and the model begins.
The README labels it a simplified reservoir experiment, not a biological simulation or competitive engine.
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