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

A developer released a browser-based demo of a sparse spiking neural network that classifies hand-drawn digits using only event-driven additions, running entirely client-side via ONNX Runtime Web. The model uses 5% connection density, leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons, and connection masks derived from Drosophila connectome statistics, with weights and code published on Hugging Face and GitHub under the AwareLiquid account.

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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.
     ·  [model](https://huggingface.co/AwareLiquid/Sparse-SNN) ·
    [code](https://github.com/AwareLiquid/human-brain-simulation)
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