It has been pointed out elsewhere that the State Machine described in my blog post[0] (submitted here[1]) is an example of stigmergy. This is a really useful c

It has been pointed out elsewhere that the State Machine described in my blog post[0] (submitted here[1]) is an example of stigmergy. This is a really useful concept/tool/technique. This is a method I used when simulating large traffic flows on a state-of-the-art distributed parallel machine in the early 1990s. It had less computing power than a modern phone, but by using the right techniques we could perform sufficiently accurate simulations to get interesting results. Stigmergy ... a useful technique. [0] https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/StateMachineInRealLife.html?te02hn2 https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/StateMachineInRealLife.html?t... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23050231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23050231