You are technically correct. The weights of the connectome are not the same as the parameters of an ai model, but FlyWire absolutely does provide a weighted directed connectivity graph, where the edge weight is the number of synapses between neurons. The FlyWire literature itself calls those values “edge weights” or “connection weights”, and treats them as a proxy for synaptic strength
And agreed that this isn’t a faithful simulation of a fly brain. I’m using the connectome as the network structure/parameters for a computational model, then using its outputs as the teacher for the classifier. Not sure how the ChessFly uses it
Edit: in any case, these are just fun demos, they aren’t research papers trying to claim accurate physiological fly brain software simulations
And agreed that this isn’t a faithful simulation of a fly brain. I’m using the connectome as the network structure/parameters for a computational model, then using its outputs as the teacher for the classifier. Not sure how the ChessFly uses it
Edit: in any case, these are just fun demos, they aren’t research papers trying to claim accurate physiological fly brain software simulations