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"implemented a Brownian diffusion model [..] but found that it was unable to account for the high rate of growth" https://t.co/fObSwXqJRf
Intro to ML book has myth:"In the natural world, ants wander randomly until they find a path that leads to food."https://t.co/7GIJ55jiLc
Learn you a pheromone: "partially stochastic" != random walk...https://t.co/3BRax3mZcehttps://t.co/8amDCixDgO
Ant pheramones are way more complex than simplistic computer models let on: https://t.co/Usi9KwTcLr
Strangely, emulating the complexity more accurately leads to simpler computer simulations:https://t.co/H8quMLphUg
More ant randomness myths undone: https://t.co/IBeNciBgU7
Original progenitor of ACO:"how *almost blind* animals like ants can manage to establish shortest route paths"https://t.co/wZdEMLgAbc
Ants react to gradients in the environment to form dynamic structures while seeking resources... just like cells do: https://t.co/XTIvbqyf5h
Ants could be leveraging the same kind of organizational structure that Slime Mold uses to compute... https://t.co/J2ACLRl5Pz
"... yet they are still able to sense gradients and bias their movement accordingly."https://t.co/CKihVmEah9 https://t.co/MJIV8RjEk6
"No ant in the colony is paying attention to wither the whole colony has enough food." #ants #cancer #homeostasis https://t.co/uaDsiLDLxq
"a robust concept of the invisible hand does emerge from evolutionary and complexity theory" https://t.co/hwWEzKqEHQ https://t.co/RGugStiN26
"If they have a memory of a food source, they often ignore pheromone trails." https://t.co/yowmfwjy2R
Putting this here to remind my future self to have hope. Emotional stigmergy: https://t.co/aHFezJ2cNW
Some more self-reminders (emotional stigmergy) associated with idea of ABM and my desire to get a phd:https://t.co/tCRnRFXumI
"Traditional ant systems include mainly a positive reinforcement pheromone. This approach uses a second pheromone"https://t.co/Q8PPWbF155
How do ants handle risk in decision making?https://t.co/wZQpn1rC5Y https://t.co/ZlPstSnl1H
Risk in agile swarming: https://t.co/AUuJ5Lehhtand risk tolerance in ant personalities: https://t.co/lJ6Ov2kYzN
"Moreover the general case of the problem has been proven to beNP-Complete"https://t.co/EC0WLPVOAq https://t.co/O9ypTkzBx2
Sometimes I wonder if ants can sense size of a tunnel thru echolocation of stridulation, simlar to spider 'hearing'. https://t.co/ltfQGwDsZU
Did you know that ant larvae 'cry'? It is really weird: https://t.co/Kyqg3WWiCq
An example of how a simplified view of the ant pathfinding behaviors leads to a naive routing model: https://t.co/J2zkMyUEq5
Ants (Messor sancta?), Slime Mold, and Alan Turing all in one paper from 2002? So cool!https://t.co/k8Mu8d0LMd https://t.co/xkoMSbnLFK
Study of the ant Paratrechina longicornis Shows a different tactic of swarm cognition that deviates from naive modelhttps://t.co/LbaOWY9v54
Study of Ant Temnothorax Albipennis shows colony level decision making of nest scouting thru recruitment mechanism. https://t.co/6EiXuR9yhG
Modeling different ants suggests variation in effectiveness of strategies based on colony size & resource density:https://t.co/vy5hHAUZs2 https://t.co/M5DktR6nCB
Here's some who understand; Modeling ants as collaborative emotional agents for intrusion detection? Very cool:https://t.co/uOG3vkhvzo
Ants are not random, but result of complex feedback loops of factors, including interaction rates, composition.https://t.co/9ZlML72c1o https://t.co/KwII8pFVeo
The scents (emphasis: plural) are also tuned in such a way that an ant can attune itself to embodied ~emotions.https://t.co/MHcUN02Oxh https://t.co/ti9cFdqwLA
Ants make sounds as a strategy to differentiate castes.I wonder if they 'whoop' like bees. Caterpillars are jerks.https://t.co/adeNliRWIF
Some caterpillars aren't parasitical jerks, but mutualists.Ants actually learn the scents of their ingroup?https://t.co/9EedOf3FZN
You can hear ant stridulation on the wikipedia page: https://t.co/mP7AX47Q92In theory this is how ant-man's suit worked.
"She is navigating based on an internal memorized map that she generated by counting her strides." #Cataglyphis 🐜😍https://t.co/UHTq5HneLc https://t.co/Fh9NLxyn8g
"learning may have a prominent role to play in the reciprocal adaptation"https://t.co/5UthltRNCC https://t.co/m68yq2X7Kr
I wonder if you could 'teach' and ant to not do this with seeds, or if the disgust/taboo reflex is genetic.https://t.co/C7CcWzTDiR https://t.co/bvzOTPohML
I wonder if slug slime is a defense against ants. Slugs are also jerks.https://t.co/QRK2WSKuzs
When myths of how ant colonies work butts up against real-world results, we learn things. Question your assumptions.https://t.co/MrsillGbvN https://t.co/pvWlKf36Cb
If your ant based algorithm doesn't take into account physical constraints or negative signaling what are you even?https://t.co/uT8Xvv4Rqd
Since > 5 people shared that thing on spider webs -> embodied cognition, here's an article about how ants are jerks.https://t.co/YI5qlfP7Iq https://t.co/8R9Z6rkJS2
As humans colonize the earth, we bring along interlopers who pave the way. European earthworms are jerks?https://t.co/d0b51r9VlR
The earthworms also hurt slugs... who eat the whole seed and prevent plants from spreading. Maybe slugs aren't jerks https://t.co/mOIRIxVu0W
"they had been helping the worms proliferate by carting in mulch for paths and top-dressing plants with compost." https://t.co/20M1eKBLHA https://t.co/aK7cTEhVcQ
Oak leaves are acidic and help prevent worms. But we've been infecting oaks with fungus by importing firewood. dohhttps://t.co/hJ1VlFAatd
You'll never guess what loves eating all that dying wood. https://t.co/fi9s2N2IGp
Hot take: the most prolific humans cultures seem to hate trees?https://t.co/Fd8TvaG9Km
Ants need moisture, so do most living things.https://t.co/S0fnNvOYVJ
Moles tho. Moles are actually good for the trees. They kill the worms.https://t.co/txdHLkP4pG
Earthworms are misunderstood folklore?https://t.co/QfPKZSFg6w
Now adding Moles to my head cannon as "dirt fish"... https://t.co/j8tVJs8Fks
There's a war going on for your embodied energy.https://t.co/kBdR7KnMm2
The ecosystem does not hate you, [...] but you are made out of embodied energy which it can use for something else.https://t.co/zRt1GU7dwX
Ants can also signal their age by the stridulation pitch? huh. "There is complex information in these signals,"https://t.co/Kyqg3WEHKS
Yet more evidence of invasive worms causing massive reduction in tree growth. (h/t @AmandaChimera)https://t.co/emppV4O5Fr https://t.co/KWGn7AZ3dA
Humans and the Trophic Cascade caused by colonizing the wilderness.Bewitched by the ideology of pastoralism...https://t.co/VsSe6ZXO8M
So I've been obsessed over the "Knight's Tour" problem since grade-school (who isn't?)Turns out it's a subset of the hamiltonian path problem, which itself is "also a special case of the travelling salesman problem"https://t.co/Mm8YQQ0xD0
In this paper on solving the generalized traveling salesman problem with an ant based algorithm, the literally and explicitly state the myth.How deep does this conspiracy go?https://t.co/P7tE7e3mdf https://t.co/5C3PBP14Ok
How can a paper from 2008, directly referencing Dorigo's thesis from 1992, still get this basic framing wrong?Its like scientists are blindly following a scent trail to get paper's published.https://t.co/06an0wAQrA
Risk in agile swarming: https://t.co/AUuJ5Lehhtand risk tolerance in ant personalities: https://t.co/lJ6Ov2kYzN
"Moreover the general case of the problem has been proven to beNP-Complete"https://t.co/EC0WLPVOAq https://t.co/O9ypTkzBx2
Sometimes I wonder if ants can sense size of a tunnel thru echolocation of stridulation, simlar to spider 'hearing'. https://t.co/ltfQGwDsZU
Did you know that ant larvae 'cry'? It is really weird: https://t.co/Kyqg3WWiCq
An example of how a simplified view of the ant pathfinding behaviors leads to a naive routing model: https://t.co/J2zkMyUEq5
Ants (Messor sancta?), Slime Mold, and Alan Turing all in one paper from 2002? So cool!https://t.co/k8Mu8d0LMd https://t.co/xkoMSbnLFK
Study of the ant Paratrechina longicornis Shows a different tactic of swarm cognition that deviates from naive modelhttps://t.co/LbaOWY9v54
Study of Ant Temnothorax Albipennis shows colony level decision making of nest scouting thru recruitment mechanism. https://t.co/6EiXuR9yhG
Modeling different ants suggests variation in effectiveness of strategies based on colony size & resource density:https://t.co/vy5hHAUZs2 https://t.co/M5DktR6nCB
Here's some who understand; Modeling ants as collaborative emotional agents for intrusion detection? Very cool:https://t.co/uOG3vkhvzo
Ants are not random, but result of complex feedback loops of factors, including interaction rates, composition.https://t.co/9ZlML72c1o https://t.co/KwII8pFVeo
The scents (emphasis: plural) are also tuned in such a way that an ant can attune itself to embodied ~emotions.https://t.co/MHcUN02Oxh https://t.co/ti9cFdqwLA
Ants make sounds as a strategy to differentiate castes.I wonder if they 'whoop' like bees. Caterpillars are jerks.https://t.co/adeNliRWIF
Some caterpillars aren't parasitical jerks, but mutualists.Ants actually learn the scents of their ingroup?https://t.co/9EedOf3FZN
You can hear ant stridulation on the wikipedia page: https://t.co/mP7AX47Q92In theory this is how ant-man's suit worked.
"She is navigating based on an internal memorized map that she generated by counting her strides." #Cataglyphis 🐜😍https://t.co/UHTq5HneLc https://t.co/Fh9NLxyn8g
"learning may have a prominent role to play in the reciprocal adaptation"https://t.co/5UthltRNCC https://t.co/m68yq2X7Kr
I wonder if you could 'teach' and ant to not do this with seeds, or if the disgust/taboo reflex is genetic.https://t.co/C7CcWzTDiR https://t.co/bvzOTPohML
I wonder if slug slime is a defense against ants. Slugs are also jerks.https://t.co/QRK2WSKuzs
When myths of how ant colonies work butts up against real-world results, we learn things. Question your assumptions.https://t.co/MrsillGbvN https://t.co/pvWlKf36Cb
If your ant based algorithm doesn't take into account physical constraints or negative signaling what are you even?https://t.co/uT8Xvv4Rqd
Since > 5 people shared that thing on spider webs -> embodied cognition, here's an article about how ants are jerks.https://t.co/YI5qlfP7Iq https://t.co/8R9Z6rkJS2
As humans colonize the earth, we bring along interlopers who pave the way. European earthworms are jerks?https://t.co/d0b51r9VlR
The earthworms also hurt slugs... who eat the whole seed and prevent plants from spreading. Maybe slugs aren't jerks https://t.co/mOIRIxVu0W
"they had been helping the worms proliferate by carting in mulch for paths and top-dressing plants with compost." https://t.co/20M1eKBLHA https://t.co/aK7cTEhVcQ
Oak leaves are acidic and help prevent worms. But we've been infecting oaks with fungus by importing firewood. dohhttps://t.co/hJ1VlFAatd
You'll never guess what loves eating all that dying wood. https://t.co/fi9s2N2IGp
Hot take: the most prolific humans cultures seem to hate trees?https://t.co/Fd8TvaG9Km
Ants need moisture, so do most living things.https://t.co/S0fnNvOYVJ
Moles tho. Moles are actually good for the trees. They kill the worms.https://t.co/txdHLkP4pG
Earthworms are misunderstood folklore?https://t.co/QfPKZSFg6w
Now adding Moles to my head cannon as "dirt fish"... https://t.co/j8tVJs8Fks
There's a war going on for your embodied energy.https://t.co/kBdR7KnMm2
The ecosystem does not hate you, [...] but you are made out of embodied energy which it can use for something else.https://t.co/zRt1GU7dwX
Ants can also signal their age by the stridulation pitch? huh. "There is complex information in these signals,"https://t.co/Kyqg3WEHKS
Yet more evidence of invasive worms causing massive reduction in tree growth. (h/t @AmandaChimera)https://t.co/emppV4O5Fr https://t.co/KWGn7AZ3dA
Humans and the Trophic Cascade caused by colonizing the wilderness.Bewitched by the ideology of pastoralism...https://t.co/VsSe6ZXO8M
So I've been obsessed over the "Knight's Tour" problem since grade-school (who isn't?)Turns out it's a subset of the hamiltonian path problem, which itself is "also a special case of the travelling salesman problem"https://t.co/Mm8YQQ0xD0
In this paper on solving the generalized traveling salesman problem with an ant based algorithm, the literally and explicitly state the myth.How deep does this conspiracy go?https://t.co/P7tE7e3mdf https://t.co/5C3PBP14Ok
How can a paper from 2008, directly referencing Dorigo's thesis from 1992, still get this basic framing wrong?Its like scientists are blindly following a scent trail to get paper's published.https://t.co/06an0wAQrA