Did no one actually read the abstract of the article I sent? There were only 4 locations and the bees did not even use the optimum paths all the time.
Jason On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Stephen P. King <[email protected]>wrote: > On 9/20/2012 12:09 PM, meekerdb wrote: > > On 9/20/2012 12:22 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: > > Any one up to explaining this: > > http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/se/38864.html > > > What's to explain? The bees found the shortest route. Do you suffer from > the misconception that NP-hard = insoluble? NP is just a description of > how a computation scales. For the number of places bees visit it may be > very easy to solve, even though the number of steps grows faster than > polynomially with the number of places to visit. > > Brent > -- > > > Gee Brent, > > Leave it to you to miss the obvious. How did the computation occur for > the bees? What the researches showed is that bees can figure out the > solution and navigate it as they go from flower to flower. How does this > happen? > > > -- > Onward! > > Stephen > http://webpages.charter.net/stephenk1/Outlaw/Outlaw.html > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
