Show HN: Connectome-inspired spiking network you can try in the browser

Draw a digit — a sparse spiking neural network (5% connection density, LIF neurons, masks from

Drosophila connectome statistics) classifies it with event-driven additions only.

Runs entirely in your browser via ONNX Runtime Web.

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The network spikes only ~8% of its neurons per frame; each spike is an addition,

not a multiply-accumulate. Energy estimates use a 45nm CMOS model

(Horowitz 2014: MAC 3.7 pJ vs add 0.9 pJ).

5% densityLIF + surrogate gradient~112× estimated energy saving

Honest boundaries — research artifact, not production. Dense-MLP gap: 1.5 pts (MNIST) / 0.5 pts (Fashion).

Energy figures are analytic (45nm CMOS), not measured on hardware. In our experiments the static

connectome topology gave no advantage — only its statistical laws transferred.

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