[Diaspora] Slime mold solves travelling-salesman-like problem

[Brad Murray]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Harald Wagener <wagener at gmail.com> wrote:

> As much as I like examples of this, the fact that slime mold "solves"
> this is not interesting unless it does it in less time than
> mathematical algorithms all of the time.
>

It's also interesting if it suggests an algorithm that is better on one of
the two axes of interest (speed or memory) when used in a computer. It's
also interesting if it solves perfectly something that could only be
approximated previously.

Not saying that this is any of those cases, but rather that the cool part is
not that we can replace computers with slime molds. :D

-- 
Brad Murray (halfjack)
VSCA Publishing
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