human race has been able to fulfil some pretty telling thing , but some of them were around long before we figured them out . Ants , for instance , hunt for food for thought in a way that ’s essentially the same as the Internet ’s Transmission Control Protocol ( TCP ) , and they weredoing it long before the cyberspace was around .
It all has to do with how harvester ants tuck their intellectual nourishment . The same way that TCP will throttle data transmission system if initial packets indicate little bandwidth , harvester ants will send less foragers out for food if the initial 1 take too retentive to come back with grub .
FromStanford News :
[ The ] rate at which harvester ants – which forage for ejaculate as individuals – leave the nest to look for for food corresponds to intellectual nourishment availability .
A forager wo n’t regress to the nest until it finds food . If source are rich , forager return faster , and more ants leave the nest to scrounge . If , however , emmet begin returning empty handed , the search is slack , and perhaps call off .
And that ’s not where the similarity end either . emmet also use TCP ’s deadening start technique , by sending out a wave of foragers ( packets ) to figure out the comparative amount of intellectual nourishment ( bandwidth ) before scaling their numbers up or down . Likewise , the same style a connection will time out if the germ halt send out packets , the ants will stop mail out new forager if none return for 20 min .
Balaji Prabhakar , one of the researchers behind the discovery , says that if this behavior had been uncover pre - net , it might have influenced its design . Even so , this foraging process has been seriously meter - test , and there still might be things we can see from it . In the interim , who knows what other algorithms might already be out there , quietly wait to be discovered . [ Stanford News ]
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