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

[Harald Wagener]

You're right on all accounts. I posted sloppily and prematurely. Apologies.

2010/1/21 Brad Murray <bjmurray.halfjack at gmail.com>:
> 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
>
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> Brad Murray (halfjack)
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