Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion and in no way reflects the opinion of my employer.
Today parallel programming at the commodity level is a booming sector both from big tech standpoint and from a small grassroots “web 2.0″ standpoint; Most everyone who is connected to the internet has more data than they know what to [...]
saw them hurrying from either side
and each shade kissed another, without pausing,
Each by the briefest society satisfied.
(Ants, in their dark ranks, meet exactly so,
rubbing each other’s noses, to ask perhaps
What luck they’ve had, or which way they should go.)
— Dante, Purgatorio, Canto XXVI
Before I went back to grad school, I had been studying self organization [...]
“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else — if you run very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.”
“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. [...]
(This article is an entry on my continuing series on Self Organization. The first article was Emergence, and the article that preceeded this one was based on stigmergy. )
What is it that governs here? What is it that issues orders, forsees the future, elaborates plans, and preserves equilibrium?
- Maeterlinck [1]
Social Insects are an incredible biological [...]