What do you feed a puzzle-solving slime mold, if you want the slime mold to be at its best? A new study suggests that the traditional food ought be replaced with something better, and suggests what that something is: “On attraction of slime mould Physarum polycephalum to plants with sedative properties,” Andrew Adamatzky, Nature Preceedings, […]
Tag: calculation
XKCD: Vault calculation
This XKCD cartoon illustrates an old (but perhaps correct) idea — that calculation can have consequences: