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What the Internet has in common with an ant colony
- danso 12y agoAnts 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.
- sanoli 12y agoI don't know about SimBee (not into bees as I'm into ants I guess), but I would love a new SimAnt.
- spiritplumber 12y agoThere's a French game called Empire of the Ants that came out circa 2002, that is intended to be a spiritual successor.
- murbard2 12y agoThis is an old project http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/ http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/ but the idea is still sound. It's routing inspired by ant colonies, for anonymous file sharing. See http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/howAnts.shtml http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/howAnts.shtml for an explanation of the algorithm
- wiredfool 12y agoI'd tell y'all a UDP joke, but you might not get it.
- mnem 12y agoIn that case, I'll just keep telling you this TCP joke until you do get it.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 12y agoI acknowledge you; go ahead.
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- leephillips 12y agoAnt colonies can also solve variational calculus problems: http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/01/have-a-scientific-problem-steal-an-answer-from-nature/ 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-10508842caad https://medium.com/backchannel/meet-the-ultimate-wikignome-1...
- DanAndersen 12y agoAnt 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-simulation-and-visualization/ http://www.dan.andersen.name/gpu-accelerated-3d-ant-colony-s... https://github.com/DanAndersen/gpu-ant-sim https://github.com/DanAndersen/gpu-ant-sim
- LiweiZ 12y agoYou 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_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_adaptive_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.
- Panamfrank 12y agoThe article seems to be written from the perspective where we somehow weren't born from the same evolutionary processes as ants.
- jnaour 12y agoThere 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/Swarm_intelligence http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ant_colony_optimization_algorithms http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ant_colony_optimization_algorithm...