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Bees have evolved for 100M years. During this time an enormous amount of bees have lived and finding a shorter path between flowers is obviously a very strong e
by HelloBeautiful 16y ago
Bees have evolved for 100M years. During this time an enormous amount of bees have lived and finding a shorter path between flowers is obviously a very strong evolutionary pressure.
Generally the bee species is a genetic algorithms supercomputer that have worked for a very long time to find good solutions to the traveling salesman problem. I'd guess your suggestion, that we should not even try to find the results of that 100M years computation, is based on some personal feelings ;-)
- bluekeybox 16y agoBees no doubt have a very good biological implementation of some heuristic algorithm to the traveling salesman problem. It is extremely unlikely (as in aliens in area 51 unlikely -- wishful thinking unlikely) that they have a biological implementation of an exact algorithm. The Daily Galaxy article makes it seem as if the bees are solving the problem using an exact algorithm, and, moreover, that they are faster at doing so than a modern supercomputer, which is all complete wishful-thinking nonsense.