At a cocktail party, if sounds were mixed “properly” in the air, an artificial neural network could understand every individual speech simultaneously :) This idea is useful for improving the inference efficiency of large models.

Congrats to our team! 🎉 This reconstructed cortical circuit is large enough to test the “non-randomness” of connectivity motifs. The wiring in the cortex looks more random than expected.

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We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses! Explore the connectome: codex.flywire.ai Reconstruction paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Annotation paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/6

We're done! A historic milestone for neuroscience brought to you by the FlyWire Consortium. Don't take my word for it. See the glory of the fly brain for yourself at flywire.ai/gallery

4 years. 250 people. 2.7 million edits to proofread 127,000 neurons. The fly connectome is here! Preprint: Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Explore it in Codex: codex.flywire.ai

Write a sentence with "dog, frisbee, catch, throw" 👉Too easy for 7B LM... Will (constrained) text generation (CTG) "die out" like many other NLP tasks, in face of LLM? 👉Excited to introduce 🐕COLLIE, next-gen CTG that even challenges GPT-4! collie-benchmark.github.io (1/n)

Our paper with "Tony" Runzhe Yang describing the network statistics of the whole-brain connectome of a complete adult Drosophila brain is now available on BioRxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/6

A new study by Albert Lin "Tony" Runzhe Yang et. al. has analyzed the statistical properties of the whole adult fly brain, comparing connectivity of neuropil (brain regions) in the fly and drawing comparisons between species. Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… animation: Amy Robinson Sterling

Here it is! A huge milestone in neuroscience – the complete connectome of the fly brain from the FlyWire team (FlyWire). In this special issue, we have 9 research articles. I’ll try to summarize them in a couple threads starting here 🧵

Thrilled that our papers mapping and analyzing the connectome of the complete brain adult fruit fly, including our work with "Tony" Runzhe Yang characterizing the network properties of the brain, have been published at nature!

A historic milestone for neuroscience! It's been a fantastic journey for the #FlyWire Consortium. This special edition of Nature showcases the power of open science, with nine papers that not only describe the fly connectome, but also make discoveries using it.