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

[Harald Wagener]

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.

Great pictures, though!

2010/1/21 Brad Murray <bjmurray.halfjack at gmail.com>:
> This isn't actually all that new, but it's a cool presentation. Biological
> systems solve "hard" computing problems all the time. This one is visually
> awesome though:
>
> <http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/01/21/tech-biology-slime-mold-railway.html>
>
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