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asakiyume November 27 2007, 07:52:02 UTC
This was fascinating! I'd heard about how bees dance, but never details on what the parts of the dance mean or that they teach the dance to the others--and this article also made it very clear how the bees' method of gathering nectar was analogous to the server situation.

I liked the line, "the bees are not performing computations, they ARE the computations."

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anushsh November 27 2007, 08:02:24 UTC
Yeah.. truly amazing. Infact the application of bee swarming techniques has been in news for quite a long time but nothing was concrete until this.

There are a lot more interesting stuff.. Like Amazon was talking about designing their servers based on the Epidemic disease model. i.e Conencting systems the way flu virus spreads.

I think I got into Wildlifing through similar interests. Animal behvaiour in general is soo amazing :-)

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