Hive Mind and Web2.0

A post on bees and the hive mind (by a beekeeper). How these ideas may relate to the social web (web 2.0). Also, a new book on parameter setting in evolutionary algorithms, cheers MEDAL.

Game AI, Science in Silicon, and Ants for Aircraft

An article in the guardian about intelligent game artificial intelligence (go bottom up), cheers to Togelus. An awesome video about doing science in silicon, (technically light but very pretty!) cheers Seed. The use of ant algorithms in aircraft scheduling, cheers GreyThumb.

Spock 'Entity Resolution' Challenge

Spock have an entity resolution machine learning challenge (like the NetflixPrize) with a $50K USD prize. Cheers for the heads up to Machine Learning Theory and O'Reilly Radar. See entity resolution on Wikipedia, on google scholar, and on google.

More Second (A)Life

Virtual ants in second life, and flocking fish in second life.
Also a paper on exploration/exploitation with human decision makers, titled "Should I stay or should I go? How the human brain manages the trade-off between exploitation and exploration" (2007).