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It even…",{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"15393739","have_faith","One step closer to Ghost in the Shell! Great work, and seems like a very good learning device. Can't wait for more complicated organisms to be mapped and more complex sensors and…",{"value":75,"source":64,"evidence":76},"Good learning device",[77],{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},[79],{"value":80,"source":64,"evidence":81},"Not what one commenter expected from the title",[82],{"id":83,"by":84,"text":85},"15393045","thethirdone","I was expecting a worm that would infect computers that tried to program Arduinos and then would infect more Arduinos. The actual content is cool in its own right, just not at…",[87,94],{"value":88,"source":64,"evidence":89},"Add visual stimulus handling to the connectome",[90],{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"15393093","lawlessone","Thanks for reminding me this exists.. It's cool but something about it still makes my hair stand on end. 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