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As an aside, an algorithm based on ant pheromones is a clever way to solve the traveling salesman problem. http://people.idsia.ch/~luca/acs-bio97.pdf http://pe

• merraksh 10y ago
  But ant colony algorithms are heuristics. The Concorde software by Cook and co., that is mentioned in the blog post, obtains an optimal solution.
  • chris_wot 10y ago
    Yes, but the ant colony algorithm is interesting... and kind of neat!