What the Internet has in common with an ant colony(priceonomics.com)
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What the Internet has in common with an ant colony
http://priceonomics.com/the-independent-discovery-of-tcpip-by-ants/
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Ants and their colonies are so fascinating to me that I'm constantly saddened by Maxis's decision to not remake SimAnt. I'd be happy with a SimBee, too.
I don't know about SimBee (not into bees as I'm into ants I guess), but I would love a new SimAnt.
There's a French game called Empire of the Ants that came out circa 2002, that is intended to be a spiritual successor.
Ant colony systems are really interesting! It's fascinating how distributed creatures can communicate and, with a simple set of rules, converge on a good solution.
Last year I did a GPU programming project involving an ant-colony-like simulation. Based on the idea that ants have immediate knowledge only of their neighborhood, it's a simulation that works well with GPU fragment-shader-based parallelization:
http://www.dan.andersen.name/gpu-accelerated-3d-ant-colony-s...
https://github.com/DanAndersen/gpu-ant-sim
Last year I did a GPU programming project involving an ant-colony-like simulation. Based on the idea that ants have immediate knowledge only of their neighborhood, it's a simulation that works well with GPU fragment-shader-based parallelization:
http://www.dan.andersen.name/gpu-accelerated-3d-ant-colony-s...
https://github.com/DanAndersen/gpu-ant-sim
You may be interested in complex system and complex adaptive system as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_adaptive_system
I think they are the source perspective of many ideas. And many popular books are actually derived from them.
I think they are the source perspective of many ideas. And many popular books are actually derived from them.
Ant colonies can also solve variational calculus problems: http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/01/have-a-scientific-pro...
In other news, this article uses "comprise" to mean the opposite of what it actually means, which is the subject of another of today's HN front page articles: https://medium.com/backchannel/meet-the-ultimate-wikignome-1...
In other news, this article uses "comprise" to mean the opposite of what it actually means, which is the subject of another of today's HN front page articles: https://medium.com/backchannel/meet-the-ultimate-wikignome-1...
There is several optimization algorithms that are inspired by nature. Especially Ant Colony Optimization.
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Swarm_intelligence
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ant_colony_optimization_algorithm...
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Swarm_intelligence
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ant_colony_optimization_algorithm...
The article seems to be written from the perspective where we somehow weren't born from the same evolutionary processes as ants.
I'd tell y'all a UDP joke, but you might not get it.
In that case, I'll just keep telling you this TCP joke until you do get it.
See http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/howAnts.shtml for an explanation of the algorithm