Ask HN: Biomimicry in software?
The title is pretty much self-explanatory: do you know of any algorithms/solutions that emulate nature to solve problems? I know of neural networks, and chaos theory (think plant leaves and algo-trading), but I'd like to find out about specific implementations of this.
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Ant colony optimization algorithms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algorit...