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A scientist relives a traumatizing experience.
Been spending too much time playing with ants recenctly, and this is the result. Playing with ants in an entirely professional sense of course, TSP algorithms and whatnot  . |
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So I'm wondering if the wife is a "queen" ant. Might make a nice companion piece.
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I am me, not someone else, not anything in between.
mmmmm
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-PeshoZmiata
Still, great work. We don't see insects TF really often. It's a nice change from the routine.
A well-known problem in Computer Science which has no known efficient solution. The problem is to find a tour of N cities (visiting all cities once) with the shortest length. Sounds easy, but once you get to a possible set of cities of 64, there's 64! (factorial) possible paths to evaluate if you do a 'generate all tours and search to find the smallest' approach. If you don't have a calculator, 64! ~= 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (ie. a really big number).
Using virtual 'ants' (aka. agents) a (non-proven) optimal solution can be found in a few minutes, as apposed to a few billion years it would take to brute-force search the tours.
Thats the general idea anyways
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