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The complete male fruit-fly connectome is fascinating to look at, although I am unsure whether the visual beauty exceeds its practical use. A few neurons can still support surprisingly effective information processing. We may be confusing biological neural networks with computational ones. Younger me felt embarrassed when Geoffrey Hinton said they were the same; that is clearly untrue, and I wonder what the research will bring.

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