Bees Can Optimize Internet Bottlenecks

prostoalex writes "Georgia Tech and University of Oxford scientists claim bees can help up develop a better Internet traffic algorithms. By observing bees, the researchers noticed that bees pass back information on route quality. 'On a basic level, the honeybee's dilemma is a tale of two flower patches. If one patch is yielding better nectar than the other, how can the hive use its workforce most efficiently to retrieve the best supply at the moment? The solution, which earned Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch a Nobel Prize, is a communication system called the waggle dance.' Any practical applications of that? Well, apparently ad servers, serving banners across a variety of servers, can report back on the time it took to generate the page."

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Flies Can Quickly Locate: +1, PatRIOTic

[Anonymous Coward]

the world's biggest Bullshitter.

Put that in your bong and inhale it.

Cheers.

Re:Um...

[Anonymous Coward]

I didn't believe it until i read this Bees and the Bottleneck effect