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Ants and Algorithms
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:08:58
Publish Date: 2021-01-09 19:00:00
Description: What can ants tells us about whether something deserves to be popular? This is a question tackled in David Sumpter’s book – ‘The Ten Equations that Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too.’ He tells Tim Harford about some of the algorithms that you see in nature, and those harnessed by tech companies such as YouTube.
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