Biological Processing Units and a Commodore 64 | A 2017 Science paper showed the fruit fly's brain does the same job as a computer-science algorithm for finding similar items. I reproduced it on [...] (imapenguin.com)

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a laptop, then ported the same algorithm to a Commodore 64.

Very cool stuff. In an age of throwing ungodly amounts of compute at LLMs, it's nice to see someone approach a problem with the goal of making it as lightweight as possible. Like the author, the extreme resource limitations are one of the reasons that I love retro tech, since they breed ingenious solutions.

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