On 5 April 2014 07:44, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
Offered for your amusement--no followup.
A forager won't return to the nest until it finds food. If seeds are plentiful, foragers return faster, and more ants leave the nest to forage. If, however, ants begin returning empty handed, the search is slowed, and perhaps called off. <<<<<<
No wonders ants don't govern us. This algorithm is atrocious. So if food is scarce, most ants will stay at home and play videogames all day, but if theres a lot of food, all of them will go around and return with mountains of food they can't store. Is a algorithm, from a madman, designed to kill the hive if theres very low food or too much food. I propose ants start using "food debts"/"food promises". Ants will print "food debts" to explorer ants, these explorer ants must "pay" these debts by finding food. If some ant need a lot of food, that ant will print more debt. The more food the hive need, more debt is printed. -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje.