Published: August 7, 2025
Theme: Ant Algorithms (Nature and Computing)
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This zine was inspired by a block I found on are.na about ant-based computing. Ants figured out the TCP-like algorithm all on their own! While humans also discovered it themselves, it's fascinating to see how nature mirrors the computational systems we create.
Sources to Explore
Distributed Computation in Ant Colonies - MIT CSAIL
Stanford biologist and computer scientist discover the ‘anternet’
The Independent Discovery of TCP/IP, By Ants
An Approach for Scalable Parallel Execution of Ant Algorithms