{"id":1459,"date":"2012-09-27T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2012-09-27T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T13:20:00","slug":"the-power-of-bug-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/09\/27\/the-power-of-bug-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of bug brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bumblebees navigate new turf without a map<br \/>\nThe insects can quickly calculate the best route between flowers<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/generic\/id\/345298\/title\/Bumblebees_navigate_new_turf_without_a_map\">http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/generic\/id\/345298\/title\/Bumblebees_navigate_new_turf_without_a_map<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having spent a lot of time researching optimization, evolving programs and machine learning, this is quite interesting to me.  I am almost interested enough to dig out the primary research and try to produce an algorithm that encompasses the bee behavior (but not quite; lack-o motivation has been a serious problem for me for quite a while now).  Though computers are getting faster and faster, there are still problems that cannot be resolved by brute-force computation (and some that theoretically can never be resolved no matter what performance is achieved) and I am interested in areas where humans currently deal with those situations through &#8216;best guesses&#8217;, &#8216;gut feeling&#8217; and &#8216;experience&#8217; and attempt to provide computational solutions that are at least as good as what the humans turn out.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad I can&#8217;t get anyone to pay me to do that sort of thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bumblebees navigate new turf without a map The insects can quickly calculate the best route between flowers http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/generic\/id\/345298\/title\/Bumblebees_navigate_new_turf_without_a_map Having spent a lot of time researching optimization, evolving programs and machine learning, this is quite interesting to me. I am almost interested enough to dig out the primary research and try to produce an algorithm that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/09\/27\/the-power-of-bug-brains\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The power of bug brains&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}