Re: Anternet
On 5 April 2014 07:44, Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.net wrote: Offered for your amusement--no followup. http://kottke.org/14/04/the-anternet -- 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.
Re: Anternet
On 4/4/2014 11:32 PM, Andrew D Kirch wrote: So, if there's more than 4 billion ants... what are they going to do? get larger ants. (and the responses have now covered both pro forma responses.) d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net
Re: Anternet
On Tue, 6 May 2014, Dave Crocker wrote: On 4/4/2014 11:32 PM, Andrew D Kirch wrote: So, if there's more than 4 billion ants... what are they going to do? get larger ants. No, no. The solution is far simpler than that, and would probably give a good example of real-world population control. Just get an ant-eater. (and the responses have now covered both pro forma responses.) d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net wfms
Re: Anternet
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 12:44:05AM -0500, Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.net wrote a message of 9 lines which said: http://kottke.org/14/04/the-anternet But what is the equivalent of 3-way handshake? And of ECN (ants carrying back messages I still bring food but it won't last)? And the security implications (what prevent bad ants to disrupt the mechanism: ants did not invent random ISNs)? Is there a source quench mechanism or did the ants deprecate it long before RFC 6633? And what is the size of the initial window? Should we cancel all patents related to TCP because there is prior ant art? Many questions unanswered.
RE: Anternet
Ant algorithms are currently part of the communications infrastructure. Here is a recent paper, and see the reference in the paper about the Ant Based Control (ABC) algorithm that is used for circuit switched networks. Marc http://www.ijarcsse.com/docs/papers/Volume_3/3_March2013/V3I3-0125.pdf -Original Message- From: Larry Sheldon [mailto:larryshel...@cox.net] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 1:44 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Anternet Offered for your amusement--no followup. http://kottke.org/14/04/the-anternet -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to learn from their mistakes. (Adapted from Stephen Pinker)
Re: Anternet
So, if there's more than 4 billion ants... what are they going to do? Andrew On 4/5/2014 1:44 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote: Offered for your amusement--no followup. http://kottke.org/14/04/the-anternet
Re: Anternet
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Andrew D Kirch trel...@trelane.net wrote: So, if there's more than 4 billion ants... what are they going to do? there will never be more than 4 billion ants. On 4/5/2014 1:44 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote: Offered for your amusement--no followup. http://kottke.org/14/04/the-anternet
Re: Anternet
On 4/5/2014 2:32 AM, Andrew D Kirch wrote: So, if there's more than 4 billion ants... what are they going to do? Who knows, but they'll definitely need IPv6 :) Jeff
Re: Anternet
Large Scale aNt will be good enough. Plus this has security advantages. On Saturday, April 5, 2014, Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote: On 4/5/2014 2:32 AM, Andrew D Kirch wrote: So, if there's more than 4 billion ants... what are they going to do? Who knows, but they'll definitely need IPv6 :) Jeff -- Tim:
Re: Anternet
This has been a solved problem for a long time. You just need to implement Virtual Local Ant Nest (VLAN) and use overlapping local address schemes. On 4/5/2014 2:32 AM, Andrew D Kirch wrote: So, if there's more than 4 billion ants... what are they going to do? Andrew On 4/5/2014 1:44 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote: Offered for your amusement--no followup. http://kottke.org/14/04/the-anternet
Re: Anternet
--- jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote: On 4/5/2014 2:32 AM, Andrew D Kirch wrote: So, if there's more than 4 billion ants... what are they going to do? :: Who knows, but they'll definitely need IPv6 :) --- http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/nanobots.png :-) scott
Anternet
Offered for your amusement--no followup. http://kottke.org/14/04/the-anternet -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to learn from their mistakes. (Adapted from Stephen Pinker)
Re: stanford-biologist-computer-scientist-discover-anternet
On 27 August 2012 02:58, Suresh Ramasubramanian ops.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Andre Gironda an...@operations.net wrote: http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-biologist-computer-scientist-discover-anternet Looks like at least one component of unseen university's Hex is alive and kicking. Good fun. Ank-Morpock already have his own p2p client http://antsp2p.sourceforge.net/ -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje.
stanford-biologist-computer-scientist-discover-anternet
? http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-biologist-computer-scientist-discover-anternet
Re: stanford-biologist-computer-scientist-discover-anternet
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Andre Gironda an...@operations.net wrote: http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-biologist-computer-scientist-discover-anternet Looks like at least one component of unseen university's Hex is alive and kicking. Good fun. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)
