FLYTRADER

FLYTRADER is an experimental biological-computing art system. A physical Drosophila subject is observed through an optical microscope. Observable movement and activity features are processed by software and mapped into a computational model inspired by Drosophila neural connectomics.

The resulting computational state is then translated into a simplified BUY / SELL / HOLD classification. The trading layer is simulated and does not execute real financial transactions.

The fly does not understand cryptocurrency, markets, or trading. The interpretation is created by the software layer surrounding the biological observation.

Drosophila melanogaster is the most completely mapped nervous system available to computational neuroscience. The male CNS connectome — released under CC-BY by HHMI Janelia FlyEM, the Cambridge Connectomics Group and Google Research — traces every cell and its synaptic partners from electron microscope images of an actual fly.

Connectome reference

165,122 neurons

Connections

10,228,000

Unit model

leaky integrate-and-fire

Descending output

DNa02 · DNa01 · MDN · DNp09

These connectome statistics describe the computational reference model. They are not a claim that these neurons are directly measured by the physical microscope feed.