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What Termites Can Teach Us

• DoofusOfDeath 8y ago
  What termites have taught me is to not keep firewood stacked right next to my house.
• wolfgke 8y ago
  With this headline, I immediately thought of Zero's termite speech in Virtue's Last Reward (spoiler if you want to play this visual novel/game): > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk3PpRVshtY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk3PpRVshtY (EDIT: Video with better audio quality, but unluckily annoying comments: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0R_U3S1JUE&t=503 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0R_U3S1JUE&t=503
• shrimp_emoji 8y ago
  >In the nineteen-nineties, computer scientists began programming virtual termites that built “walls” via the principles of stigmergy. These virtual termites could build two-dimensional shapes, but they could not produce anything like the complex three-dimensional architecture of real termites. Someday soon, I hope we'll achieve termite AI.
  • DoofusOfDeath 8y ago
    Not sure it's possible. The more accurate the models get, the buggier they are.
• Pica_soO 8y ago
  That breaking down cellulose into reusable sugars and hydrogen is a win in chemistry?