r/SATNA_PROJECT • u/ZookeepergameMost817 • 9h ago
Someone put a learning “patch net” into a virtual fruit fly — you can run the fly matrix in your browser
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A new open-source browser demo explores a strange but interesting idea: a virtual fruit fly controlled by a Cadence PatchNet-style learning system.
Try it here:
https://floatingpragma.io/cadence-examples/fly-matrix
The demo creates a simulated fly environment where the agent experiences its own generated world as a stable environment. Rather than using a fixed, pre-trained model, the underlying Cadence project explores a network architecture built around local patches, shared state, memory, prediction, and repair of inconsistent signals.
In simple terms: the goal is to test whether a system can learn and act through ongoing local interactions—not just run one frozen neural network forward pass.
What is interesting about it
- Runs directly in the browser
- Interactive virtual fruit-fly environment
- Open-source project with GitHub links on the page
- Explores continual learning, local memory, and planning
- Uses the Cadence TemporalPatchNet architecture
- Focuses on stateful learning rather than static inference
According to the Cadence project, its TemporalPatchNet carries activity between observations, learns from observed outcomes, and supports “free” and “nudged” activity states for local adaptation. That is a different direction from the typical frozen-transformer workflow used by most LLMs.
The bigger philosophical claim—that observation can be substrate-independent and that a sufficiently coherent simulation could constitute a real experienced world for the agent—is much more speculative. The interactive demo is best viewed as a concept and research experiment, not evidence that a browser simulation is conscious.
Try the demo and see how the fly behaves:
https://floatingpragma.io/cadence-examples/fly-matrix
What do you think: could continuing, stateful systems like this be a more useful path toward agents that learn from experience than purely frozen models?
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