jerryjliu/fly_ocr

Printed-character recognition through a fixed fruit-fly connectome, with a small trained decoder, compound-eye replays and a full research report.

Science & researchPython

0.6 Cooling Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

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About the project

An experimental OCR that recognizes printed letters and digits through a simulated fruit-fly connectome with frozen weights and a small trained decoder. A research project, not a practical tool.

Useful for

Run the local React viewer with bundled recordings without downloading the connectome
Recognize letters and digits on a cropped image via the CLI
Reproduce class scores from saved recordings to verify results

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

1 star so far today, about 1 expected by the end of the day.
The repository is 5 days old and already has 85 stars.
Top new repositories this week: #145.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 85
Stars in a day: 1
Forks: 14
Issues and pull requests: 1
Watchers: 1
Language: Python
License: MIT
Latest release: teaser-v1 · September 13, 2026
Created: September 13, 2026
Last push: September 13, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 18, 2026Top new repositories this week: #101
September 17, 2026Top new repositories this week: #106
September 16, 2026Top new repositories this week: #125
September 15, 2026Top new repositories this week: #140
September 14, 2026Top new repositories this week: #183

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