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Amoeboid designs complex transportation network, eats oats
“A paper in the current issue of Science discusses the ability of a single-celled creature to create a robust network while foraging for food—one that mimicked the Tokyo rail system in complexity. Creating a good network is a balancing act; you need to span a large number of nodes with a minimal number of edges (keeping cost low), while being able to function when an edge is lost (fault tolerant). Problems of this type are a shining example of the adage “fast, cheap, or good: pick any two.“
In other words, eat more oats!
Posted on June 4, 2010 with 2 notes
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oatallyawesome posted this
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I love of oats. If you're here, it means you love them, too, or maybe you're just flirting with Avena sativa. Or you're my friend. Your motives are irrelevant to me (unless they're evil). I hope you'll find this blog interesting and informative.
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