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Swarm Theory Makes National Geographic

Posted by kdawson on from the intelligence-of-crowds dept.

g8orade writes "Swarm Behavior / Swarm Theory has made the pages of National Geographic. Brief but interesting article with several examples." Swarm theory has been discussed here a few times in recent years.

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  1. Insect swarms are smarter than insects by idontgno · · Score: 5, Informative

    Aunt Hillary would agree.

    To the confused, Aunt Hillary is an ant hill, a character in Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher,Bach; an Eternal Golden Braid. The chapter she's featured in is subtitled "...Ant Fugue". (Which is the chapter following one subtitled "Prelude...")

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    Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
  2. Re:Nomenclature by Gunark · · Score: 5, Informative

    The correct term is Dynamical Systems, and its common, consistent language is the branch of mathematics dealing with dynamical systems (complete with its own vocabulary -- strange attractors, manifolds, emergence, chaos, etc.)