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Repository for the main Dockerfile with the OpenWorm software stack and project-wide issues

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 8 comments · first 2013-01-16 · latest 2026-08-06

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  1. openworm: https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm
    comment by magimas · 2026-08-06 · in Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
  2. Sadly no: https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm/milestones If everyone who submitted this to HN made a commit to the repo we'd have a worm civilization being simulated!
    comment by kennyadam · 2024-06-11 · in OpenWorm – creating a virtual organism in a computer
  3. …Extrapolate that to 10k neurons... [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6889226/ [1] https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm
    comment by tsimionescu · 2021-09-27 · in Neuromorphic electronics based on copying and pasting the brain
  4. …simulation capability at the moment. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6889226/ [1] https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm/milestones
    comment by tsimionescu · 2021-09-27 · in Neuromorphic electronics based on copying and pasting the brain
  5. https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm/milestone/22 This is an attempt to model the behavior of a 1mm worm with 302 neurons. The idea that we are going to jump from failing at this to succeeding at something comparable to human intelligence…
    comment by nicoffeine · 2021-01-02 · in Anesthesia works on plants too, and we don’t know why
  6. …I go just look at the screenshots of the "brain": https://github.com/openworm/c302 and the sim: https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm/blob/master/README.md#q... Reading further, more physics: > Some simulators enable ion channel dynamics to…
    comment by anotheryou · 2020-08-20 · in Artificial Intelligence is stupid and causal reasoning won't fix it
  7. …ttp://openworm.org/getting_started.html#goal seems to be matter of time, not lack of understanding. ( https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm#quickstart ) But maybe I'm not up to date on the issues. > it's high time to give up on the delusion…
    comment by pas · 2018-03-27 · in Evolution Is the New Deep Learning
  8. https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm
    comment by lingben · 2013-12-24 · in Wriggling worm is breakthrough for artificial life